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The fact that the more global ordinal (auditory) language of childhood, more heavily cathected with defused instinctual drives, can be distinguished from the predominantly visual language of adult life permits a study of the influence of language in the formation of the superego functions.
In this communication the influences exerted by ordinal language upon the formation of identifications, specially elevated introjects and upon the creation of the internal world of the child are explored and described in a preliminary way. The influence of primitive sounds known as explosives, spirants and nasalized consonants (Rosen, 1955); (Rangell, 1963); (Walsh, 1967), (1968) as expressors and carriers of affective cathexes and primitive, defused instinctual drives (Walsh, 1967), (1968) is an important part of the afore-going process, since these sounds can be demonstrated to be related to universal gastrointestinal, genito-urinary and respiratory tract operations of infancy.