The Origin of Language, Concept Formation, and the Volitional Ego as Language: A Psychiatric and Developmental Approach

The present paper proposes a clinical and neuropsychiatric model for the origin of language, the formation of concepts, and the constitution of the volitional ego as a linguistic structure. Based on analogical processing in the nervous system, we explore how contiguous neural activations generate abstract conceptualization through similarity capture. The progressive development from receptive to expressive language is mediated by early relational synchrony, especially between mother and infant, where the so-called “secondary ego” arises. This volitional ego emerges through internalized dialogue and self-regulation, grounded in neurobiological mechanisms such as mirror neurons and frontal-parietal integration. Clinical implications for psychiatry, particularly in developmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia, are discussed, including critical reflections on current behavioral therapies that often neglect this foundational neuro-linguistic synchronization