Condillac y el niño de Aveyron (1800): sensación y silencio

Resumen

Condillac and the wild boy of Aveyron (1800): sensation and silence

This text is a meditation on the contemporary notion of language, on its history, engraved in the complex web of experiences, which has incited the appearance of identities, of subjects, of conceptions of sensibility and anomaly. Thus, the history of language reveals itself not as an autonomous discipline, but as a dense map of trajectories implanted in other manifold histories of different qualities: psychiatry and its institutions; the family, abruptly transformed since the XVIIIth century; the symbolic identities of kinship; the mutating visions on sexuality; the emergence of pedagogy, the intellectual frames for the conceptions of anomaly. This paper seek, through the reading of Condillac, to explore this history that outlines not a lineal transformations of the notion and categories of language within the margins of a discipline, but the outcome of accumulated echoes, the resonance of the paradoxical impact and equivocal alliances between modes of institutional behaviour and the building of knowledge and experience.