The things for which there exist no terms are considered "
namable," in this sense we being categorically differrent from animals.
Of course he cannot recognize this: melancholia is always shooting ahead of itself, mourning the loss of something that isn't yet lost, trying to find words that can organize the past into something narratable, something that isn't
namable or narratable without such a word.
Violence is assumed as the constitution of a singular, refracted, and
namable predominating force, the state and its extension, and is blind to considerations of violence located at the constitution of being itself and present prior to the arrival of the state.
It is critical, writes Zerubael, to understand the processes by which we divide things up into
namable categories.
Again, we are not suggesting WPA-related dissertations weren't written before that time; we are suggesting, however, that writing program administration as a distinct area of inquiry--marked by the use of these terms in dissertation abstracts as well as graduate program directors' identification of writing program administration as a dissertation subject area--has become an increasingly
namable and recognizable choice for dissertation writers since the mid-1990s.
The therapist was almost palpably fascinated with his patient's apparently separate, "
namable" states of emotion and thought (for example, "Betty" "Joan," and so on--I'm making up these names).