prototaxic

prototaxic
\\“+\ adjective
Etymology: prot- + -taxic (as in parataxic)
: lacking in self-awareness and in perception of temporal sequence : cognitively inchoate : preconceptual

prototaxic symbols

in the first year of life the prototaxic mode is operating — G.S.Blum

— contrasted with parataxic and syntaxic

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  • prototaxic — In interpersonal psychiatry, a term referring to the earliest form of experience characteristic of the infant that is undifferentiated, global, and unorganized. [proto + G. taxis, order, arrangement] * * * pro·to·tax·ic tak sik …   Medical dictionary

  • prototaxic — pro·to·taxic …   English syllables

  • parataxic — Pertaining to parataxis. * * * para·tax·ic .par ə tak sik adj relating to or being thinking in which a cause and effect relationship is attributed to events occurring at about the same time but having no logical relationship compare PROTOTAXIC …   Medical dictionary

  • parataxic — |parə|taksik adjective Etymology: New Latin parataxis + English ic : characterized by or relating to a mode of individual experience in which persons, events, and relationships are perceived as discrete phenomena, in which occurrences in the real …   Useful english dictionary

  • syntaxic — sə̇n.ˈtaksik adjective Etymology: syn + taxic (as in parataxic) : characterized by or relating to a mode of experience or symbolic behavior that relates symbols and referents, speech and action, subject and object in a sequentially logical and… …   Useful english dictionary

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