The grammatophobia of the metaphysical tradition goes with a dream of total meaning being given without the use of signs.
1979, P. T. Geach, "On Teaching Philosophy", Philosophy, Volume 54, Issue 207, January 1979:
This trouble is not of my making, and I do not know how to remedy it. Grammatophobia, fear of the schematic letters used to show logical form, is something some students never overcome; but I do not know any better how to cope with grammatophobia than with dyslexia.
1991, Michel Beaujour, Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait, New York University Press (1991; original French book published 1980), →ISBN, page 137:
Although we only follow Derrida from a distance in his attempt to make Hegel confess his grammatophobia, we can make his comment our own: for Hegel, Thoth, the inventor of writing, is a "secondary god, inferior to the god of thought, an animal servant of the great god, the animal of man, the man of god, etc."
2003, Catherine Wilson, "Capability and Language in the Novels of Tarjei Vesaas", Philosophy and Literature, Volume 27, Number 1, April 2003:
But the temptation to imagine that the novels make a statement about the futility or inadequacy of language, that they are straightforward expressions of the author's own grammatophobia, or that they attempt to induce a grammatophobic response in the audience should be resisted.
In consequence, critics who know, or believe they do, about Oedipus complex and anal fixation, or grammatophobia, for that matter, more often than not, find it in their texts, too, and before one can say Jack Robinson, they have elevated an author of the past, like Swift, to the rank of prototype, pioneer and champion, of Modernity.
