[lit-ideas] Re: Do ideas exist before being articulated?
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:17:00 +0900
The question is whether there is an idea already existing but in need
of expression or an idea whose existence depends on its being
expressed. The latter may sound strange; but if you have worked, as I
have, in a creative business, watching ideas take shape as copywriters
come up with words and art directors visualize them, it makes a lot of
sense.
John
On 10/15/07, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This doesn't look like such an enormous dichotomy to me. Why must it be an
> "either/or" scenario? A dialogue, conversation, between the idea and the
> linguistic, where each informs the other?
>
> Julie Krueger
>
>
> On 10/14/07, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Pondering the conversation about what goes on before we speak, I note
> > that two possibilities are in play.
> >
> > 1. Classical--We possess ideas of which we are partly or wholly
> > unaware until they are spoken. Cf. Plato, Leibniz (rebutting Locke),
> > Chomsky, Freud.
> >
> > 2. Modern--Ideas only emerge as we speak them. What goes on inside us
> > is a confluence of pre-linguistic processes that crystallize at the
> > moment we speak. Cf. Vico, Minsky,Klein a good deal of current
> > research in such fields as psychology and political science that
> > indicates that processes conventionally described as "emotional"
> > proceed those described as "rational," which turn out, more often than
> > not, to be after the fact rationalizations of decisions already made.
> >
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John McCreery
> > The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
> > Tel. +81-45-314-9324
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