In this essay the author describes some of the transformations that occur as one moves from preverbal functioning to verbally symbolic language. In preverbal experience, there is a direct connection between the sign and what is signified. An infant or child signifies displeasure by throwing his food or other objects to the floor. Much of the emotional tie between mother and infant and patient and analyst is communicated in this way. When a transformation occurs from preverbal to verbally symbolic language, as occurs in early development and as one interprets a dream, meaning is not merely translated, meaning is created. On acquiring verbally symbolic language, a "space" mediated by an interpreting subject opens between the symbol (for instance, the word guilt) and the symbolized (the experience of guilt) and a new subjectivity is created. On entry into verbally symbolic language, one becomes able to experience oneself in a qualitatively different way; one becomes both subject and object, I and me; one becomes able to experience a far broader range of feelings and types of thinking. Helen Keller's account of her experience of acquiring verbally symbolic language is drawn upon.

中文翻译：

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口头语言黎明时的转变。


在这篇文章中，作者描述了当一个人从前语言功能转向语言象征性语言时发生的一些转变。在前语言体验中，符号和所指的事物之间存在直接联系。婴儿或儿童将食物或其他物品扔到地板上来表示不满。母亲和婴儿之间以及患者和分析者之间的大部分情感纽带都是以这种方式传达的。当从前语言转变为口头象征语言时，就像在早期发展和解释梦时发生的那样，意义不仅仅是翻译，意义是创造的。在获得口头象征性语言时，由解释主体介导的“空间”在符号（例如，罪恶一词）和被符号化（罪恶感体验）之间打开，并创造了一种新的主观性。在进入口头象征语言时，一个人能够以一种质的不同方式体验自己;一个人既是主体又是客体，我和我;一个人能够体验到更广泛的感受和思维类型。海伦·凯勒 （Helen Keller） 对她获得口头象征性语言的经历的描述被借鉴。