The power of "words". Wounds and soiling

Abstract

The power of the word produces realities that can be terrible and salvific, destructive and constructive, empty and full, truthful and false, of beginning and end.

In this paper, some words will be analyzed, paradigmatically, between those that hurt and those that soothe.

In particular: among the words that hurt: rejection, indifference, backbiting; among the words that soothe: closeness, understanding, acceptance.

The objective is to place the possibility of educating to constructive use of words at the center of pedagogical knowledge, so that they may be words of hope and growth.