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

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 neuralactivations generate abstract conceptualization through similarity capture. The progressivedevelopment from receptive to expressive language is mediated by early relationalsynchrony, 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-parietalintegration. Clinical implications for psychiatry, particularly in developmental disorders likeautism and schizophrenia, are discussed, including critical reflections on current behavioraltherapies that often neglect this foundational neuro-linguistic synchronization.