Los caminos de la expresión en personas sordas: las señas y la oralidad

Abstract

The main topic consists of getting deeper into deaf people’s subjectivity. A matter that is central in social sciences, is studied in hearing people every day and from different approaches. It's a challenge to deepen from a discipline such as psychoanalysis and linguistics how subjectivity processes occur, as well as symbolizing, for this point at the need of the spoken and heard word. Therefore, the eagerness for the search of knowing what happens in deaf people, how they express themselves, while they count on the main support of The Sign Language, its present such an important issue in them, which consists of learning not only this tongue, but also the possibility of learning how to talk, become "orals", having a voice. It will be explained, on one side, the trascendance and richness contained in sign language, and on the other hand, to make clear why do I consider vital these two psychic and mental processes and how can they match, opening a world of possibilities; among these, to have a relationship with the hearing people community, and to be able to express their subjectivity in a different way. Finally, it is suggested the experience of a deaf people community, which has learned sign language and orality, its bonds, its fights and petitions.