[Information and evocation. Materials toward a sociopsychologically oriented psychopathology].

Abstract

Psychopathology is always science of interaction, because mental illness is recognizable only in interaction. It will be useful for psychopathology to have a critical look on ideas and models of modern linguistic science. This is especially true for those tendencies which are interested in the concept of a theory of speaking and acting and work out the social implications of communicational processes beyond the formal examination of language structure. From this point of view new basic knowledge of psychopathology may accumulate. Tendencies going in that direction are examined in detail, especially the meaning of evocation, which was introduced by Lacan and which might prove to be a key conception of psychiatry.