TFOUNI, Fabio Elias Verdiani. Why is there language instead of nothing?: A discoursive and psychoanalytical approach. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2012, 18, 2, pp.175-194. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2012v18n2p175.

Within the fields of Discourse Analysis (Pêcheux) and psychoanalysis, this work consists in an epistemological study on the conditions for the existence of language, by trying to answer the question: Why is there language instead of nothing? In short, we state that interdiction and silence are constitutive and founders of the discourse. We claim that what makes it possible to say anything is that is not possible to say everything. So, something must remain unsaid. We address these issues using the alethic Aristotelian modalities and the square of opposition (in a non-Aristotelian approach). The logical principle here is that the contradiction - the excluded - founds the possible. We also propose and build a square of saying or of utterances

: Interdiction; Silence; Discourse; Square of opposition; Entredicho; Silencio; Discurso; Cuadrado de las oposiciones.

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