Psychoanalysis

Subjectivity and multilingualism are issues of interest to sociolinguistics, clinical linguistics, and translation theory. However, the psychoanalytic reading of multilingualism avoids the concept of an "internal translator" proposed by linguistic studies. Attempts to correlate the "refusal of the mother tongue" (which is no less paternal than maternal - according to the apt remark of Jacqueline Amati Mehler) with "complex relations with the mother", bilingualism - with the field of neurosis, and polyglotism - seem to be a generalization incompatible with psychoanalysis. with the space of psychosis.

Psychoanalysis offers to read in every encounter of the subject with languages various pictures of the Scriptures of subjectivity. René Major points out that he who finds refuge in a foreign language finds again the exile, the alienation characteristic of the parletre in his mother tongue. "He speaks the language of exile, albeit a "different language", and the native language becomes strangely close, the language of the inner refuge, the language of nostalgia for the future perfect."

Psychoanalysis