Some linguistic considerations for the study of the historical development of the subject of the self

Abstract

As a initial contribution to the historical-
psychological development of the subject,
the ego is analyzed in its role of agent. Using
methods of comparative linguistics and linguistic
anthropology,
are identified syntactic
constructs
that can be used as
indicators of ego
development.
Fundamentally,
the changes in
the passive, middle
and active verbal
voices are analyzed,
since they
imply changes in
the ego’s way of
acting. Turning
briefly to Dodds’s analysis, similar examples
of changes in the use of verbal voices in Latin
and English are presented below. Trying to
reinterpret these ego agency changes in the
psychic apparatus, the concept of “co-agents
of the ego” is proposed.