shrinkrants: We do not only use language; it uses us. Language is recursive: it provides the categ
shrinkrants: We do not only use language; it uses us. Language is recursive: it provides the categories in which we think. As [Jerome] Bruner points out, language “imposes a point of view not only about the world to which it refers but toward the use of the mind in respect to this world”. Discourse theory suggests that we do not develop meaning out of a void, but out of a preexisting, shared language, and through discursive practices that reflect and reenact the traditions, power relations, and institutions of the society. — Rachel Hare-Mustin, Discourses in the Mirrored Room: a postmodern analysis of therapy. Family Process, 1994 Mar;33(1):19-35. -- source link
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