Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-l4dxg Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-06T23:16:57.856Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The uncanny power of words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Paul J. M. Jorion
Paul J. M. Jorion
Affiliation:
Théorie et Praxis, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 75270 Cedex 06, Paris paul_jorion@email.msn.com aris.ss.uci.edu/~jorion
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

In their quality as acoustic or visual percepts, words are linked to the emotional values of the state-of-affairs they evoke. This allows them to engender meanings capable of operating nearly entirely detached from percepts. Such a laying flat of meanings permits deliberation to take place within the window of consciousness. In such a theatre of the imagination, linguistically triggered, resides the originality of the human psyche.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 1999 , pp. 622 - 623
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press