Speak and say: the anti-performative hypothesis

The article analyzes the performative and anti-performative hypotheses and the parallel phenomena of projective and anti-projective identification. Based on linguistic and psychoanalytic research, the author comes to the following conclusions: without the performative hypothesis people would not be able to understand each other, and without the anti-performative hypothesis they would not be able to hide their thoughts. If not for projective identification, people would not be able to approach each other. If not for anti-projective identification, they would not be able to keep their identity.