Systemic-phenomenological analysis of the language of a patient with schizophrenia: The case of the girlfriend

Abstract

In the following contribution, the object of investigation is the relationship between the pathological panel of catatonic syndrome and the language system of the subject who suffers from it. In particular, we have examined the linguistic corpus of a patient hosted, together with nine members, in a community, in order to demonstrate that the semantics of the subject with schizophrenia can be interpreted on the basis of a real code. Schizophrenic spectrum disorders, as is known, due to the subcortical dopaminergic variation, the functional reduction of NMDA of glutamate and the anomalies of the prefrontal cortex and temporal lobes, manifest themselves in a marked alteration of cognitive functions. Consequently, narrative-conceptual disorganization, the absence of a precise reference in the communicative process and the continuous violation of the maxims of linguistic cooperation are inevitable. However, we hypothesize, contrary to what is claimed by most, that the linguistic sign of the schizophrenic is not devoid of transparency. It, on the contrary, must and can be studied according to a systemic, organic and phenomenological approach.