alex, i would be willing to argue if we think in a language or not, much of the time i believe that we think with pictures, granted there are times when we talk to ourselves, but for the most part when you think about something, its either an object or a timeframe that is stored in your memory...anyways i just find this stuff really interesting
FlyGuyOU Reviewed by FlyGuyOU on . Is your language holding you back???? Jacque Derrida says we create a prison with our language. He calls this prison the "Western Metaphysic" or 'phono-logocentrism' "The problem is, he says, is that we in the West are trapped by the voice. Trapped by our alphabetic writing which follows the voice. The voice is linear, in his view: there is only one thing happening at a time, a sequence of phonemes. On a larger scale, the unidimensional march of the voice is replicated in our linear view of history, what Derrida calls 'the epic Rating: 5