displacement

Examples of displacement in the following topics:

• Introduction to Human Language

  • Human language is unique because it is generative, recursive, and has displacement.
  • Specifically, human language is unique on the planet because it has the qualities of generativity, recursion, and displacement.
  • Human language has displacement.
  • Ants and ravens also have limited displacement systems.
  • Human language is also modality-independent—that is, it is possible to use the features of displacement, generativity, and recursion across multiple modes.

• Introduction to Psychotherapy

  • For instance, psychotherapy with children and their parents often involves play, role-play, and drawing, with a co-constructed narrative from these non-verbal and displaced modes of interacting.