Man and/in language
Man and/in language

Summary/Abstract: In this study we trace the linguistic foundations of the (post)modern understanding of the self. The idea of the centrality of personal deictics to the linguistic system, originally theorised by Jakobson and amply expanded by Benveniste, has deeply affected subsequent reconstructions of the human subject, from the Lacanian psychoanalytical model, to its existential or Marxian re-interpretations by Buber and Althusser, repectively, to name just two of the numerous theorists who have turned their attention to this problem. Language is the matrix of human subjectvity, caught in the web of its symbolic relations.

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