"Because language is expressive action in time, there can be no unsaying, only denial or contradiction, which are themselves forward motions" (Steiner. After Babel.)
"What is psychoanalysis if it is not an attempt to derive and give substantive authority to a verbal construct of the past? The past is to be re-called by present discourse...Free association and the provocative echo of the analyst are designed to make recollection or, more accurately, collection, spontaneous as well as significant. But whatever the methodology, the resurrection is verbal. A past is created as one is abolished...Whatever the tense used, all utterance is a present act. Remembrance is always now."
「言語は時間のなかで行われる表現行為であるから、言ったことをなかったすることにすることはできない。否定や反駁が可能なだけで、それらにしても、前に進んでいく動きにほかならない。」（スタイナー『バベルの後に』）
