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If we want to discuss the importance of language for the child who goes to school, then we should refer to the famous article of Sandor Ferenczi. This article was presented during the Wiesbaden Congress (September, 1932) and the title was “Confusion of Tongue between Adults and the Child. The language of Tenderness and Passion.” Ferenczi believed that the persistent traumatic effect of chronic overstimulation, deprivation, or empathic failure in childhood is what causes psychic disorders. According to this concept trauma develops as a result of sexual seduction of the child by a parent or authority figure. The confusion takes place when the child plays, in an infantile way, the role of spouse of the parent. The pathological adult interprets this infantile and innocent game according to his adult “passion tongue” and then forces the child to conform to his “passion tongue”. Ferenczi described also the introjection of the adult's guilt by the child, which leads to confusion, loss of confidence in his own perceptions, and fragmentation of personality, particularly devastating when traumatic shock has been incestuous.
“Dead Poets Society”, film adaptation of Kleinbaum's novel is a good example for this language confusion between generations, between the adult teacher and his adolescent students.