Language learning in childhood implies an original violence, because it forces us to remain silent on lived experiences for which words do not exist and on the other hand to talk about contents that don't correspond to any experience and to formulate intentions that don't belong to us. If on the one hand language allows man to "enter into History," on the other hand it remains a "filter" that cannot let through the lived world of each human being. As the poet said "words are sealed prisons for the divine breath, for Truth." Language is by definition a disciplinary structure; it imposes limits and prohibitions to the "lived world." Umberto Galimberti said the following, "Language does not reproduce truth, but rather distorts it, although truth cannot announce itself by any other means than language distortions."
Christian Marazzi, Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy
Christian Marazzi, Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy
