Introduction historique et critique à la notion de dépression en psychiatrie

Lanteri-Laura, G.

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“…Lantéri-Laura (1991) has emphasized one of the key features of a sign, namely that it must have identical features, even in different contexts.…”

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“…Georges Lantéri-Laura, one of the most important authorities in the epistemology and history of psychiatry, emphasized the fundamental importance of semiology to psychiatry: … semiotic knowledge in psychiatry, as in the rest of medicine, constitutes the origin of psychiatry – because without the clinic we could not locate either syndrome or disease or structure, and one would even ignore issues arranged in other areas – and yet it would remain devoid of autonomy. (Lantéri-Laura, 1991: 253)…”

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“…… semiotic knowledge in psychiatry, as in the rest of medicine, constitutes the origin of psychiatry – because without the clinic we could not locate either syndrome or disease or structure, and one would even ignore issues arranged in other areas – and yet it would remain devoid of autonomy. (Lantéri-Laura, 1991: 253)…”

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The emergence of psychiatric semiology during the Age of Revolution: evolving concepts of ‘normal’ and ‘pathological’

Londoño

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2016

Hist Psychiatry

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This article addresses some important questions in psychiatric semiology. The concept of a sign is crucial in psychiatry. How do signs emerge, and what gives them validity and legitimacy? What are the boundaries of 'normal' and 'pathological' behaviour and mental experiences? To address these issues, we analyse the characteristics and rules that govern semiological signs and clinical elements. We examine 'normality' from the perspective of Georges Canguilehm and compare the differences of 'normal' in physiology and psychiatry. We then examine the history and the philosophical, linguistic and medical-psychiatric origins of semiology during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (the Age of Revolution). The field of rhetoric and oratory has emphasized the importance of passions, emotions and language as applied to signs of madness. Another perspective on semiology, provided by Michel Foucault, lays stress on the concept of 'instinct' and the axis of voluntary-involuntary behaviour. Finally, we analyse how statistics and eugenics have played an important role in our current conceptualization of the norm and therefore the scientific discourse behind the established clinical signs.

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“…Lantéri-Laura (1991) has emphasized one of the key features of a sign, namely that it must have identical features, even in different contexts.…”

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Londoño

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2016

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“…Nous citerons pour exemple une analyse des rapports entre psychiatrie et linguistique structurale, par exemple : « Nous ne saurions étudier la pathologie psychiatrique du langage sans recourir à la linguistique et en particulier à la linguistique structurale ; mais cette linguistique structurale, si elle éclaire de telles investigations, ne constitue pas la pathologie psychiatrique du langage. » [3].…”

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2015

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“…According to Georges Lanteri-Laura [1], the term moral pain (douleur morale) was probably first used by J. Guislain [2] (1797-1860) in Belgium, in 1833: "In the first place, mental disease is a condition of discontent, anxiety, suffering: there is pain, but it is a moral pain, intellectual or cerebral, depending on how we choose to conceive it. To say that a mental disease is a disorder of judgment and logic would be incorrect: it would mean considering the symptom as the primary phenomenon", (p.1).…”

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The Painful Analgesia of Cotard’s Syndrome

Dimitriadis¹

2014

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In the present paper, we look into what is painful psychical analgesia in relation to what 19th century clinicians have named “moral pain” in melancholia, and more particularly in the delusion of negation described by the French psychiatrist Jules Cotard in 1880, a form of delusion that can be seen mostly in cases of chronic anxious melancholia. This condition is characterized by a painful absence of emotions, which occurs when the subject, in the Lacanian sense of the word, ceases to be touched by the signifiers, and consequently ceases to exist as a subject. Hence, these patients often declare themselves to be already dead or incapable of dying. The psychoanalytical approach to this delusion allows an understanding of the ‘’lack of lack’’ concept, as these patients, having lost the lack, affirm that their body’s orifices are clogged, that they have lost their mental vision, that they miss various visceral organs etc. The completeness of their body – the absence of orifices – can sometimes attain universal dimensions and these patients can thus identify themselves to the universe, which contains everything. The delusion of negation teaches us something important concerning the essence of desire, in relation to what has been named by Lacan area-between-two-deaths. This Lacanian concept refers essentially to the tragic hero, but also, more generally, to the lonely condition where anyone’s desire should be able to exist beyond any narcissistic commitment, which means beyond the pleasure principle as well.

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Introduction historique et critique à la notion de dépression en psychiatrie

Cited by 6 publications

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The emergence of psychiatric semiology during the Age of Revolution: evolving concepts of ‘normal’ and ‘pathological’

The emergence of psychiatric semiology during the Age of Revolution: evolving concepts of ‘normal’ and ‘pathological’

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The Painful Analgesia of Cotard’s Syndrome

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