Words in Instinct

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ABSTRACT

This research is aimed at the study of words used in Instinct, not somuch in relation to the passage from the (irrational) image to the (rational) word, as to that passage, mysterious and only imaginable, which goes from primitive guttural sounds, often onomatopoeic, to the first phonemes and to the ancient roots.

We aim to tell how the origin of the first sound-words was positive, indeed creative. Born millennia agowithin that relationship of reciprocity that characterized the life of “prehistory”, they must have been of the same beauty and humanity asthe rock paintings.