Quotes:
"Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate reversion to a state anterior to language, to the sound and cries a human being make before language is learned" (4).
"we do not 'have feelings' but have feelings for somebody or something, that is love of x, fear is fear of y, ambivalence is ambivalence about z" (5).
ambivalence- uncertainty or fluctuation
"groups are among those that together express the sensory content of pain, while certain other word groupings express pain's affective content, and still others its evaluative or cognitive content" (8).
"with which he or she can hear the fragmentary language of pain, coax it into clarity, and interpret it" (6).
"When heard in isolation, any one adjective such as 'throbbing pain' or 'burning pain' may appear to convey very little precise information beyond the general fact that the speaker is in distress" (7).
"the language must at once be characterized by the greatest possible tact (for the most intimate realm of another human being's body is the implicit or explicit subject) and by the greatest possible immediacy (for the most crucial fact about pain is its presentness and the most crucial fact about torture is that it is happening)" (9).
