ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the discussion of the tripartite structure of language, consciousness, and identity formation and places it within the field of neurolinguistic research, specifically research on neuro-psychoanalysis. It shows how the audioverbal modality is more closely bound up with self-consciousness than is the visuospatial modality, and that self-consciousness develops in dialog with the vocalizations of significant others, generally parents and authority (or prestige) figures. This is related to the theories of the formation of the superego. It also describes the emergence of syntax from the psychoanalytic process of secondary revision, and the emergence of lexica from visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and motor networks.
