Reflexões sobre a (in)coerência na fala do esquizofrênico

Abstract

In this research we elaborate a critical review of language characteristics that has been pointed highlighted out in the areas of Text Linguistics and Psychoanalysis concerning the conceptuation of the schizophrenics speech. The critical review of the theoretical framework was also based on our own clinical experience with patients diagnosed as, which we assist in a psychiatric hospital, with the intent to characterize and understand the particularities of the psychotics language. The studies we carried out followed two lines. On one hand, they tried to reinforce the hypothesis that the psychotic discourse was incoherent. In order to do so that werelied on lingüistic formalism, especially the concepts of competence and performance found in Chomsky, and pragmatics, with Grice’s conversational principles. On the other hand, they tried to prove that the psychotic discourse was coherent, taking into consideration the maintenance of topic and the digression postulated by the Interational Sociolingüistic approach and its model of face to face interaction. This work brings almost essentially a theoretical contribution, but also presents some empirical confirmation given by the observation of the psychotics we kept up with and by the analysis of the referential processes constructed in the speech of each patient. We defend the thesis that, rather than evaluating the organization of the text of the psychotic, it is more important to provide a listening approach guided by the ethics of a desire, no matter if it concerns a psychotic or a neurotic person