{"id":51636,"date":"2023-11-23T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=51636"},"modified":"2023-11-24T10:47:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T09:47:32","slug":"where-speech-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/where-speech-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Speech is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Herein lies the paramount importance of memory as the stepping-stone from sentient to intellectual soul. Memory, as the German word <em>Er-innerung <\/em>reminds us, internalizes; it makes the outward inward. The sentient soul can already effect this to some extent, inasmuch as it retains for a time inward pictures of the outer world. Else it would be merely sentient body. When there is a car outside the door and a bustle of some sort inside, especially if there is anything like luggage about, my cat displays great uneasiness, and this is clearly because he retains some sort of picture of previous departures resulting in unwelcome solitudes. But I cannot by any stretch of imagination conceive of my cat sitting down and thinking to himself: \u201cLet\u2019s see, what was I doing this time yesterday?\u201d This is memory at a different stage altogether. \u2026. It is this sort of memory that makes possible the birth of speech whether in the evolution of [humanity] or in the growing child. In the Greek mythology, Mnemosyne\u2013Memory\u2013was the mother of the Muses. Both speech and thought can indeed be thought of as begot in the ventricle of memory; for it is there that they are conceived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From<\/strong> Owen Barfield, \u201cThe Ventricle of Memory\u201d in <em>Anthroposophical Quarterly<\/em> 20.1 (Spring 1975): 10-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owenbarfield.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Owen Barfield<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image<\/strong> Speech Dnk\/unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herein lies the paramount importance of memory as the stepping-stone from sentient to intellectual soul. Memory, as the German word Er-innerung reminds us, internalizes; it makes the outward inward. The sentient soul can already effect this to some extent, inasmuch as it retains for a time inward pictures of the outer world. Else it would be merely sentient body. When there is a car outside the door and a bustle of some sort inside, especially if there is anything like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19687,"featured_media":51756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9147,8848],"tags":[8819],"class_list":["post-51636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-becoming-human","category-literature","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}