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[Are we really talking about psychic symptoms?]

D Morin1

  • 1Hôpital Victor Dupouy, Argenteuil.

Annales Medico-Psychologiques
|December 1, 1995
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Psychic symptoms are not linguistic signs because the rules for associating meaning and form do not exist for mental illnesses. This challenges the linguistic interpretation of psychological symptoms.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Clinical Psychology

Context:

  • The prevailing view often interprets psychic symptoms through a linguistic lens, treating them as signs with associated meanings.
  • This approach assumes a structural and rule-based equivalence between linguistic signs and psychological manifestations.

Purpose:

  • To critically examine the assumption that psychic symptoms function as linguistic signs.
  • To investigate the existence and nature of rules governing the association of form and meaning in mental illness.

Summary:

  • The study argues that psychic symptoms cannot be equated with linguistic signs.
  • It highlights the absence of established rules that bind a specific form (significant) to a particular meaning (signified) in the context of mental illness.

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  • This lack of rules invalidates interpretations of psychic symptoms based on linguistic models.

    • Impact:

    • Challenges foundational assumptions in the psycholinguistic and psychoanalytic interpretation of mental health conditions.
    • Suggests a need for alternative frameworks to understand and interpret psychic symptoms.
    • Underscores the limitations of applying linguistic theories directly to psychological phenomena.