Language and the "perceptual and conceptual unconscious"
 

Bernstein 107: "I understand language not as an indifferent system for describing an independently external reality but as the perceptual and conceptual unconscious of reality."
 
Therefore: "Changes in language affect reality just as they reflect social and historical developments"

> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)

> tagged with #imagination, #language, #reality, #consciousness

> created Mar 4, 2025 at 8:27:47 AM


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