Publication: La metáfora de hablar: inscripciones de la mente silenciosa
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2018-04-11
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El lenguaje surge del silencio. Es un hecho simple, casi inapreciable, y en el que apenas reparamos. Pero encierra en sí mismo toda la profundidad del habla humana, que asoma en la superficie de una sustancia muda, que no se pronuncia, y en la que discurre como un nómada por el pensamiento, en la búsqueda de la significación. Este es el tema principal de esta tesis, y así lo hago ver desde el título: la inscripción, por el habla, de lo que en la mente es solo silencio. Se trata de una nueva forma de abordar el problema cerebro–mente, y la manera en que nos relacionamos con los objetos del mundo —entre ellos los propios términos que usamos para nombrarlo—, que hace necesario replantear los vínculos de la mente con el signo, y del signo con el cerebro. Pues el referente es algo que nunca se expresa, y permanece siempre como a punto de ser dicho. El camino del lenguaje es un buscarlo. Y su función primera es por tanto metafórica: constituirse en signo, presencia; manifestarse, respecto de lo que no se manifiesta. Por el habla hacemos que los hechos del mundo se hagan patentes y cobren sentido, en un acto que puede llamarse de consumación, y el sujeto hablante confiere así propiedades de epifanía al habla, de inserción en la realidad desde una materia que es anterior a la primera palabra pronunciada. Por eso el lenguaje de este texto, científico y poético al mismo tiempo, quiere ser escenario mismo donde la tesis suceda, de manera que se haga palpable, como acontecimiento. Todo lo que la tesis descubre lo hace a través de la palabra, que a menudo se estira en estos párrafos como un grito lanzado hacia los límites de la semántica, dejando tras de sí el rastro de una luz transparente en su regreso a la estricta órbita de lo conocido...
Language comes out of silence. It is a simple fact, almost imperceptible, and which we barely notice. But it encloses the whole depth of human speech, which arises on the surface of a mute substance that is not pronounced, and in which it runs like a nomad, in the search for meaning. This is the main theme of the present thesis: the inscription, by means of speech, of what in the mind remains as just silence. It addresses a new approach of the brain–mind problem, and the way we relate to the objects of the world —among them, the very terms we use to name it—, which makes it necessary to rethink the relations between mind and sign, as well as sign and brain. For the referent is something that is never expressed, and is always about to be said. Language is a search for it. And its first function is therefore metaphorical: to become a sign, a presence; to put forth, with respect to what is not manifested. It is within speech that we make the facts of the world become clear and make sense, in an act that can be called of consummation, and the speaking subject thus confers properties of epiphany to what is said, of insertion into reality from a matter that is prior to the first word pronounced. That is the reason why the language used in this text, scientific and poetic at the same time, wants to be the scenario where the same thesis actually happens, so that it becomes palpable, as an event...
Language comes out of silence. It is a simple fact, almost imperceptible, and which we barely notice. But it encloses the whole depth of human speech, which arises on the surface of a mute substance that is not pronounced, and in which it runs like a nomad, in the search for meaning. This is the main theme of the present thesis: the inscription, by means of speech, of what in the mind remains as just silence. It addresses a new approach of the brain–mind problem, and the way we relate to the objects of the world —among them, the very terms we use to name it—, which makes it necessary to rethink the relations between mind and sign, as well as sign and brain. For the referent is something that is never expressed, and is always about to be said. Language is a search for it. And its first function is therefore metaphorical: to become a sign, a presence; to put forth, with respect to what is not manifested. It is within speech that we make the facts of the world become clear and make sense, in an act that can be called of consummation, and the speaking subject thus confers properties of epiphany to what is said, of insertion into reality from a matter that is prior to the first word pronounced. That is the reason why the language used in this text, scientific and poetic at the same time, wants to be the scenario where the same thesis actually happens, so that it becomes palpable, as an event...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia, leída el 28-04-2017