ABSTRACT
The conclusion summarizes the findings of each chapter and synthesizes them into a theory of a linguistic configuration of cognition structured by the fundamental mechanisms of psychoanalytic theory: displacement, condensation, overdetermination, inversion, repression, projection, and secondary revision. It shows how these mechanisms inform the transition from unconscious, to preconscious, and then to conscious modes of thought. It argues that the origin, production, and processing of language proceed along this transition, arriving at the articulation of language and consciousness, which emerge gradually, incrementally, in reciprocal codetermination, and also in dialog with the construction and maintenance of identity. It argues that the matrix of language and thought, in its precognitive and early cognitive modes, is continually generative, in latent form, in fully operational adult language and cognition.
