Abstract
Ideas of James Paul Gee on how we use words and their situated meanings are dealt with. Oppositional nature of concepts is explained. Words are shown to be reflections of unconsciously held cultural models in the way people speak.
Application Work of Sigmund Freud on antithetical terms in dreams is considered, and his notion that in dreams we represent ideas by their opposites. Connection between this notion and the defense mechanism of reaction formation is dealt with.
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Freud, Sigmund. 1963b. “Obsessive Acts and Religious Practices.” In Character and Culture. (Ed.) P. Rieff. New York: Collier. (Original work published in 1907.)
Gee, James Paul. 1999. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. London: Routledge.
Saussure, Ferdinand de. 1966. Course in General Linguistics. New York: McGraw-Hill. (Original work published in 1915.)
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Berger, A.A. (2016). Words: Freud on Dreams. In: Applied Discourse Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47181-5_5
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