The Inexhaustible Experience of the Inner Voice: An Answer to Marioka (2023), Fadeev (2023) and Machková (2023)

• Published in: Integrative psychological & behavioral science Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 1110 - 1117
• Main Author: Fossa, Pablo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2023
• Subjects: Anthropology; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Humans; Psychology; Sociology; Speech; Inner Speech; Semiotics; Dialogical Approach; Inner forms of word
• ISSN: 1932-4502; 1936-3567
• DOI: 10.1007/s12124-023-09782-z

This article reflects on the analyzes and comments of Marioka (2023), Fadeev (2023) and Machková (2023) on the book New Perspectives on Inner Speech (Fossa, 2022a). First, I focus on responding and expanding the ideas presented by the authors, to later integrate the elements highlighted by them. By integrating the reflections and comments of the authors, it is evident that in inner speech there is an intersection between two continua. On the one hand, the control-lack of control continuum and, on the other hand, the diffuse-clear continuum. The level of clarity and control varies permanently during each act of internal speech, accounting for a phenomenon that advances from infinite interiority to infinite exteriority, and vice versa. This complex interaction of two continua – based on the level of control and the level of sharpness – defies empirical applications and demands methodological innovation in research centers interested in the Inexhaustible Experience of the Inner Voice.