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Inner Speech: The Private Area to Remember, Play, and Dream

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New Perspectives on Inner Speech

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The main function attributed to inner speech in psychological research is problem-solving. However, other relevant functions for psychological development have been less considered. For example, inner speech is also a place for remembering, playing or dreaming, during everyday activities of daily life. In these forms of inner speech expression, the temporality of consciousness is intrinsically intertwined. These functions account for inner speech as a “rehearsal” area for the near future, turning the experience of speaking to oneself into a liminal space between the present and what is to come, between what is known and what is about to emerge. This introductory chapter presents the general theoretical framework from which the phenomenon of inner speech will be treated in the different chapters of this book. In addition, a brief description of the main ideas of each chapter is presented.

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Fossa, P. (2022). Inner Speech: The Private Area to Remember, Play, and Dream. In: Fossa, P. (eds) New Perspectives on Inner Speech. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06847-8_1

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