Investigations into the origin of language and consciousness

First Investigation.- The Indicative Gesture as the Original Form of Consciousness.- Second Investigation.- Syncretic Language.- I. The Development of the Instrument.- From Prehominid to Homo Habilis.- From the Preparation of the Instrument to its Elaboration.- The Genesis of Stone Working - The Kafuan as the Second Stage of Prehominid Development.- From the Elaboration of the Instrument to its Production - The Olduvian as the Final Stage of the Gestation Period.- II. The Birth of Language.- The Developed Indicative Sign.- The Beginning of Language in the Prehominids.- The First Signs of Representation.- A. The beginnings of representation in the child.- B. The origins of the sign of representation in prehominid development.- C. The composite indicative sign.- D. The general formula of the representation of the absent object.- E. The sign of syncretic representation of the instrumental form.- F. Deferred imitation as insistent syncretic sign of representation of the motion of the absent object.- The Functional Sentence.- A. The elementary forms of the functional sentence.- B. The beginnings of the functional sentence in phylogenesis.- C. Developed types of the functional sentence.- D. The disengagement of the form and the birth of the name.- III. The Alveolus of the Dialectic of Knowledge.- to Sentence Formation.- Third Investigation.- Marxism and Psychoanalysis - The Origins of the Oedipal Crisis.- I. The Origin of the Pre-Oedipal Stage.- II. The Genesis of the Oedipal Crisis.- III. The Biological Tragedy of Woman and the Birth of Homo Faber.- IV. The Sign of the Phallic Woman and Oedipal Semantics.- V. The Castration Symbol and the Female Oedipus.- VI. From the Neanderthal 'Oedipus' to the Infantile Oedipus.- Notes.- Index of Names.