Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "On the Subject Who is Finally in Question," Part 2
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The First Consequences of Language
When language is introduced into a child's life, it functions as a prohibition. It gives the child new ways to express their needs in the forms of demands but also prohibits them from doing something other than using language. This is the first and foremost consequence of language. Now it's constraint that is productive for most people because it gives them a place in the world. A sense of identity, a sense of what object relations theorists would call containment. That holding or containing function is actually extremely fertile for senses of self,. For senses of reality, for non-psychotic, non-maladaptive relations to others.
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