Starting from the theories of leading psychiatrists, like Kraepelin and de Clérambault, the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) formulated an original theory of psychosis, focusing on the subject and on the structuring role of language. In particular, he postulated that language makes up the experience of subjectivity and that psychosis is marked by the absence of a crucial metaphori...

“Another thing I don’t like to hear,” Nietzsche wrote, “is the infamous ‘and’ [ein berüchtigtes ‘und’): the Germans talk of ‘Goethe and Schiller’ [...] and with my own ears, although only from university professors, I have heard talk of ‘Schopenhauer and Hartmann’...”. So what, one wonders, would he have made of “Nietzsche and Freud” ― a conjunction which, in the words of Paul-Laurent Assoun, “...

Within language, systematic correlations exist between syntactic structure and prosody. Prosodic prominence, for instance, falls on the complement and not the head of syntactic phrases, and its realization depends on the phrasal position of the prominent element. Thus, in Japanese, a functor-final language, prominence is phrase-initial, and realized as increased pitch (^ Tōkyōni "Tokyo to"), wh...

French phrasal structure is described as based on an accent group in which the final (non-schwa) vowel receives prominence by virtue of its position in the phrase. This co-occurrence of prominence and phrasal boundaries was verified experimentally by testing the perceptions of untrained participants. The listeners demonstrated a strong tendency to mark as prominent those words immediately prece...

with the french occupation of egypt in 1798 ad, the communication route of britain to india was threatened and a new stage of conflict and competition began between the two countries in eastern mediterranean, ottoman, iran, indian ocean and the persian gulf. although threats temporarily subsided with the french abandoning egypt, but the continuous french expansionism in the east caused them per...

Since Bolinger’s [1] discovery that pitch cues accentual prominence in English, a tension has arisen between two strategies: equating accent with pitch excursions and relying on perception for identifying accented words. This paper investigates the relation between prominence judgments from untrained listeners and accentual labels produced by trained transcribers. Naïve speakers of English, Spa...

the present article attempts to investigate the power of imagination and creativity of a writer qualified as one of the extraordinarily gifted individuals of world literature. in one of his works which is totally different from other works of the nineteenth century, the writer, lautréamont utilizes valiantly all dark powers protruding from his reflections and mental and contemplative background...

due to the change in attitudes, the traditional position the teachings (doctrines) of international jurists occupied in the early centuries following the birth of modern international law descended from primary source to secondary one, and seemingly, in the first half of the 21st century, the jurisprudence of international courts paid little attention to them. but with the emergence of internat...