Analysis of subjective logics
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Analysis of subjective logics is an original method of discourse analysis
developed and taught by the French psychoanalyst Jean-Jacques Pinto.
, which allows one, without using nonverbal communication
, to get an idea of the personality
of the author as well as of those he or she can expect to persuade or to entice.
This word-only analysis allows one to use either anonymous or signed texts, which will produce an effect readers (sympathy, antipathy, indifference) even if the author (who can be remote in time and/or space) is unknown to them.
One takes into account the meaning of words, not as a whole, but by breaking that meaning down to the most elementary "atoms of meaning" possible, as to find general tendencies, subjective invariant items, independent of the issue broached in the text.
The "extraverted" point of view (indicated by the letter E) values series A and depreciates series B, expressed thus:
(From now on, to make their location easier, words A will appear in italics, and words B in bold).
The "introverted" point of view (indicated by I) values series B and depreciates series A, expressed thus:
The "extraverted" point of view will therefore choose its words in series A to express what it likes, and in series B to express what it criticises, does not like or even fears :
The "introverted" point of view will on the contrary choose its words from series B to express what it likes, and in series A to express what it criticises, does not like or even fears:
Consequences :
The "same" word or the "same" expression can be valued (+) according to the "extraverted" point of view and depreciated (-) according to the "introverted" point of view, and conversely.
In fact, it is not the "same" words or expressions, but homonyms (same form, different use) as seen by A.L.S.
To describe the same kind of pleasure, the speakers use words from opposite series.
Also, to describe the same type of annoyance.
1) A "conservative" speech (I → I), corresponding to the obsessional personality : "incorruptible introvert", nostalgic for a lost Paradise, who begins "I" and finishes "I".
2) A "change / destruction" speech (E → E) corresponding to the hysterical personality : "incorrigible extravert", attracted by Hell, which begins " E " and finishes " E ".
3) A "progressive" or "constructor" speech (E → I), "repentant extravert", passing in transit through Purgatory, which begins " E " and finishes "I ".
4) A "hesitating" speech(I or E, abbreviation of I → E → I → E.), roughly the phobic personality: "eternally undecided", wobbling all his life between "I " and " E ".
(theory of « Four discourses »); it tries to validate them by putting them in contact with corpuses drawn of the common speech. What relation between speeches in A.L.S and discourses in Lacan ? His "Mathèmes" (symbols formalizing clinical experience) describe the discourses of the Master, of the University, of the Hysterical and of the Analyst. But they do not prevent the unreliable interpretations by the disciples, and correlations with clinical observation are sometimes doubtful (cf. § Applications).
Refusing these expressions, ambiguous and perhaps premature, to start from the word for word of swordings, led to create A.S.L. It describes speeches coinciding only partly with the discourses of Lacan, what does not prevent the compatibility of A.S.L. with lacanian premises, and the fact that to speeches can be applied what Jean-Claude Milner
[1] says about "four discourses": « [...] a speech [...] is [...] nothing but a group of rules of synonymy and of non-synonymy. [...] telling that there is a division between two discourses, is only telling that none of the proposals of one is synonymous with any of the proposals of the other. [...] there can only be synonymies [...] inside the same discourse, and between different discourses the only possible resemblances belong to homonymy. »
The second moment founds in the speech of the parent (proper name, personal pronouns) the conviction of the child that he is somebody, an unified entity, and moreover the author of his speech, although it comes from another one.
The « third identification » sets up the fantasy, which can accept a linguistic definition : "according to freudian theory, a fantasy is always expressed by a sentence, or more exactly by an sentence phrase, every variant of which answers in principle a distinct fantasy" (Jean-Claude Milner
). The subject of the unconscious, as the freudo-lacanian theory of subjectivity defines it, is then constituted.
The verbs expressing the wish of the parent will be able to be found in the discourse of the child in the active, passive or reflexive voice.
Minimal semantic features or "atoms" extracted from these verbs and adjectives are precisely those who constitute the two series :
A language is a polyhierarchy of subsystems. Some [...] offer to speakers choices between
various variants. Each one [is] a lect. Lects [...] will be allocated neither to an individual,
nor to a social category, nor to a geographical area, nor to a particular type of communication.
They will be studied "in itself ", in their pure oppositive relations [...].
- The two series of atoms A and B are therefore lists of minimal semantic features (or Seme (semantics)|semes) compared urgent term, for example open / close, flexible / rigid, distant / close.
-The complex signifiers
(verbs, complex adjectives, nouns, adverbs) do not a priori belong to series. It is possible for each of them to describe its composition in atoms.
- Expressions and frozen expressions,
It is often possible to find out simple rules of calculation to determine the series of an expression with the form Verb + Direct object, using its elements :
The study of these expressions allows to compare the ways to describe the same referent using the different points of view (it is possible to list the "translations" of an expression from a point of view into another).
- The sentences. As well as symmetrical expressions exist, it is possible to meet :
1. symmetrical sentences,
2. symmetrical analogies,
3. symmetrical proverbs, aphorisms and maxims.
- The texts of variable length.
- The biographies. It is possible to consider a biography to be a text which argues in favour of one of the identifications described sooner, as a subjective lect (a subjilect), a speech deriving from an identification to the parental discourse.
- Rules of the « dialogical game » : CONSENSUS, CONFLICT
- Cross-overs from one point of view to the other : they may be structural or conjonctural
- Depreciation of a « friend-like » word or appreciation of a « fiend-like » word : when the speakers have to use in a negative manner a word of the series they value, and vice and versa.
- « Atoms » and « molecules » of a same series are potentially exchangeable within metaphorical expressions, even in cases when they are non-synonymous, or moreover incompatible at a cognitive level. These synonymies can only be explained by A.S.L.
The validation of A.L.S allows as an indirect consequence to contribute to « upstream » validation of general theses which it presupposes (Lacan, 1966 ), notably:
« Series and speeches » can also and especially be applied to the discourses of the analysts.
The analysts being made with the same "clay" as their patients, the analytical discourse should not consist simply in their statements, often fantastical. To characterise it, it is easier to proceed by elimination, to say what it is not, as the identification of the different phantasies goes along.
A.L.S. cannot apply directly to the psychoanalytic "therapy". Thus the applications of A.S.L., method based on psychoanalytic theses, are mostly extra-psychoanalytic.
of rhetoric figures. This can be seen in cognitively unexplainable synonymies. So the MORFLER article of the Dictionary of non conventional French (Cellard, on 1980) points out: «(1) to receive (blows, bullet): of series Morfiler, « to eat », by figurative passage to « to take »(cf. "déguster"). (2) to speak, to confess, to report : incomprehensible meaning. It must be a confusion between "Morfler" and "Moufter" (to speak)».
Misunderstanding being the thing best shared in the world, A.S.L. has consequences in the field of negotiation. It allows to explain and sometimes to solve misunderstanding generative either of conflicts (cf. § Rules of " dialogic game") or wrong consensus bound to break.
These rules of the subjective organisation intervene in composition as well in reception of the literary text. A.S.L. adds a dimension to the classical or modern analyses. Independently of poetic singularity (singularity of the poet by its biography, singularity of the poem by its place in work and by its unique character), it searches :
, and to render depending on circumstances original expression either by « perdre la raison », or « devenir fou », or « péter les plombs ».. But it is unlikely that they differentiate, at the same level of language, between "fondu" and "givré
" or they enter « y passer » and « y rester » (pseudosynonyms) there. Of this fact the reader will be deprived of a key information concerning the personality of the author (autobiography), or the psychology of the character.
wrote in the Middle Ages (The Book of Treasure): « Tullius [Marcus Tullius Cicero] said that the highest science of city governing is rhetorics, that is the science of speech ; because if speech did not exist, neither would city exist nor any establishment of justice or of human company ».
Lakoff (1985) and Johnson point out : « Metaphors can create realities, especially social realities », and J. Molino (1979) [9]: « Metaphor
, at the moment when linguists rediscover its importance, appears therefore as a strategical instrument of analysis of culture ... But if metaphor is necessary to the interpretation of cultures, would not it be at the same time one of its essential ingredients ? ».
For A.S.L., which here agrees with Lacan
, metaphor
is constituent of phantasy, and institutions (which are based on statements or texts), social realities and cultures are only aspects of the subjective text or « psychical reality » which derives from our condition of speaking beings. And so one can and must, to understand them, approach the study of "human being" from the angle of speech. A.S.L., among other methods, can contribute to the critic of psychological, sociological, economic, political, philosophical, or even pseudo-psychoanalytic explanations of "discontents in civilisation
" : learning to raise the pertinent questions - i.e. in any "theory" to look for phantasy - is imperative before even beginning to look for solutions. Indeed the speaker described by A..S.L. as the simple spokesperson of a "cleared out from its singularity identification" is no more neither the individual subject of psychology
, nor the collective subject of sociology
: « it speaks », there is no author, were he unique or numerous, of speeches and their effects.
Discourse analysis
Discourse analysis , or discourse studies, is a general term for a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken, signed language use or any significant semiotic event....
developed and taught by the French psychoanalyst Jean-Jacques Pinto.
Definition
A.S.L. is a method of analysis of the words (lexemes) of a spoken or written text, drawing on psychoanalysisPsychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
, which allows one, without using nonverbal communication
Nonverbal communication
Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless messages. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch , by body language or posture, by facial expression and eye contact...
, to get an idea of the personality
Personality type
Personality type refers to the psychological classification of different types of individuals. Personality types are sometimes distinguished from personality traits, with the latter embodying a smaller grouping of behavioral tendencies. Types are sometimes said to involve qualitative differences...
of the author as well as of those he or she can expect to persuade or to entice.
This word-only analysis allows one to use either anonymous or signed texts, which will produce an effect readers (sympathy, antipathy, indifference) even if the author (who can be remote in time and/or space) is unknown to them.
One takes into account the meaning of words, not as a whole, but by breaking that meaning down to the most elementary "atoms of meaning" possible, as to find general tendencies, subjective invariant items, independent of the issue broached in the text.
Series (definition in extension)
There are, in a language such as French for instance, subjective sub-languages or "speeches" which, though different, are understood as they mutually translate into the other. These are combinations of words endowed with a positive or negative value.- Simple words ("atoms") are adjectives expressing simple properties (opened / closed, new / ancient), classified in two lists of opposites called "series" :
- Series " A " concerns the outside, changement, disorder, destruction of the ancient. It is made up of simple adjectives such as : opened, flexible, divers, changeable, new, free etc.
- Series " B " concerns by contrast the inside, non-change, order, permanence. It is made up of simple adjectives such as : serious, firm, stable, ancient, solid, lasting etc.
- Complex words ("molecules ") are complex adjectives, names, verbs and adverbs, whose meaning can be broken down into A or B atoms. When they are of almost homogeneous composition, they are attributed to series either A (i.e. "butterfly": mobile, light, quick, unruly") or B (i.e. "turtle": heavy, slow, rigid). It is approximative, for only the simple adjectives make up the series. If they are of mixed composition or difficult to analyse, they will be qualified respectively as "neutral" (noted "0 ") or "undecidable" (noted "? ").
- The value attributed to a word depends on the favourable or disadvantageous echo this word holds for the speaker. It is positive ("+"), negative ("-"), neutral ("0") or undecidable ("?"). It can change depending on the moment or the time of life.
Points of view
One obtains points of view by comparing for every pertinent word in a text its series and its value. They can change, as the value, according to instants or according to ages of life.The "extraverted" point of view (indicated by the letter E) values series A and depreciates series B, expressed thus:
-
-
-
-
- A + = B — = E.................Example: I am open-minded, I am not narrow-minded
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-
-
(From now on, to make their location easier, words A will appear in italics, and words B in bold).
The "introverted" point of view (indicated by I) values series B and depreciates series A, expressed thus:
-
-
-
-
- B + = A — = I.................Example: I am serious, I am not a phoney.
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-
-
The "extraverted" point of view will therefore choose its words in series A to express what it likes, and in series B to express what it criticises, does not like or even fears :
The "introverted" point of view will on the contrary choose its words from series B to express what it likes, and in series A to express what it criticises, does not like or even fears:
Consequences :
The "same" word or the "same" expression can be valued (+) according to the "extraverted" point of view and depreciated (-) according to the "introverted" point of view, and conversely.
In fact, it is not the "same" words or expressions, but homonyms (same form, different use) as seen by A.L.S.
To describe the same kind of pleasure, the speakers use words from opposite series.
Also, to describe the same type of annoyance.
Speeches
It is the extension to a whole life of the notion of point of view, matching the empirical notion of personality and the psychoanalytic notion of identification: each one plays "his" biography as an actor says "his" text, in fact written by another. The subjective sub-languages, or "speeches", make combinations in time (from adolescence to the end of life, see Genesis §) of the "I " and " E " points of view, what succeeds in :1) A "conservative" speech (I → I), corresponding to the obsessional personality : "incorruptible introvert", nostalgic for a lost Paradise, who begins "I" and finishes "I".
2) A "change / destruction" speech (E → E) corresponding to the hysterical personality : "incorrigible extravert", attracted by Hell, which begins " E " and finishes " E ".
3) A "progressive" or "constructor" speech (E → I), "repentant extravert", passing in transit through Purgatory, which begins " E " and finishes "I ".
4) A "hesitating" speech(I or E, abbreviation of I → E → I → E.), roughly the phobic personality: "eternally undecided", wobbling all his life between "I " and " E ".
Combinations of speeches
There is a «missed E → I» speech in which the speaker fails or even dies at the very time when he finishes the masterpiece which compensate its previous restless wandering. The representatives of the "hesitating" speech can "lean out" on the side of the I → I speech or of the E → E speech: facing a frightening situation, the first ("cautious") will be held on their guard, the second ("ambitious") will nevertheless go ahead, as knights "with fear and with reproach"! These names are borrowed from B. Cathelat and his Socio-Styles-Système (cf. § Validation, infra). The existence of these combinations shows to the reader suspecting A.S.L. of simplification that the current list of possibilities is not limitative.Filiation
A.S.L. draws its inspiration from some swordings of Jacques LacanJacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...
(theory of « Four discourses »); it tries to validate them by putting them in contact with corpuses drawn of the common speech. What relation between speeches in A.L.S and discourses in Lacan ? His "Mathèmes" (symbols formalizing clinical experience) describe the discourses of the Master, of the University, of the Hysterical and of the Analyst. But they do not prevent the unreliable interpretations by the disciples, and correlations with clinical observation are sometimes doubtful (cf. § Applications).
Refusing these expressions, ambiguous and perhaps premature, to start from the word for word of swordings, led to create A.S.L. It describes speeches coinciding only partly with the discourses of Lacan, what does not prevent the compatibility of A.S.L. with lacanian premises, and the fact that to speeches can be applied what Jean-Claude Milner
Jean-Claude Milner
Jean-Claude Milner is a linguist, philosopher and a French essayist. In particular, he is a specialist in the field of both linguistics and psychoanalysis...
[1] says about "four discourses": « [...] a speech [...] is [...] nothing but a group of rules of synonymy and of non-synonymy. [...] telling that there is a division between two discourses, is only telling that none of the proposals of one is synonymous with any of the proposals of the other. [...] there can only be synonymies [...] inside the same discourse, and between different discourses the only possible resemblances belong to homonymy. »
Genesis of the series and speeches
Starting with the noticing that there are different sub-languages, let us now present arguments in favour of the identificatory and fantastical nature of series, points of view and speeches described by A.S.L.The psychoanalytical term "identification"
The first moment of identification consists in starting to speak, in becoming identified with the functioning of language, however without indicating oneself in the swording (the child does not straightaway say "I").The second moment founds in the speech of the parent (proper name, personal pronouns) the conviction of the child that he is somebody, an unified entity, and moreover the author of his speech, although it comes from another one.
The « third identification » sets up the fantasy, which can accept a linguistic definition : "according to freudian theory, a fantasy is always expressed by a sentence, or more exactly by an sentence phrase, every variant of which answers in principle a distinct fantasy" (Jean-Claude Milner
Jean-Claude Milner
Jean-Claude Milner is a linguist, philosopher and a French essayist. In particular, he is a specialist in the field of both linguistics and psychoanalysis...
). The subject of the unconscious, as the freudo-lacanian theory of subjectivity defines it, is then constituted.
Hypothesis of A.S.L.
It is the parental discourse that determines, not in a linear way but with transformations themselves « programmed », the fantastical discourse of the child, depending on whether it is idealised or rejected (extreme cases). The child, once identified with the text of parental desire, will describe and will treat from now on any object (including himself and his parent) as the parent described him and wanted to treat him. It is the satisfaction of the parent, and not his, that he expresses and searches without knowing it. The adjectives extracted from the evaluations of the parent on him, and the verbs describing the fate which he wishes upon him, will give the atoms valued in fantastical wordings, and constituent of the series.- Adjectives describe the object :
- such as he is considered by the parent (beautiful, ugly, as expected, not as expected, etc.)
- plus such as it ought to be so that the action the parent would wish to accomplish upon it, or the behaviour he expects from it are made possible, i.e. light to more easily get rid of it if it is "a burden", careful if it is a matter of protecting it.
- Verbs describe the attitude of the parent :
- in front of the idealised child: to like, to love, to take seriously, to respect, to look, to see, to consider, to own, to control, to keep, to protect, to lock up, to hold, to contain, to isolate, to incorporate (often metaphorized as to eat), to feed, to fill, etc.
- in front of the unwanted child: verbs expressing disappointment, surprise, astonishment, fright, horror, to hate, to detest, to curse, not to take seriously, to deride, as well as the means to get rid of such a child, to make it change, or to ignore it : to destroy (to open, break, demolish, burn, burst, tear, pierce, etc.), to change, alter, corrupt, distort, twist, displace, move, shake, move away, move aside, chase away, chase out (sometimes metaphorized as to vomit), to leave, to let go, to drop down, to throw out, to lose, to mislead, to give, to sell, to exchange, to disregard, to ignore, to forget, etc. all these words being secondarily valued by the adult this child will become.
The verbs expressing the wish of the parent will be able to be found in the discourse of the child in the active, passive or reflexive voice.
- The connection is generally easily perceived between the fact having been carefully kept (parental « I keep him/her »), and the fact finding I keep « its » satisfaction to keep objects or persons, to guard against (dangers or of contacts), and to be kept. Filial love, where the deified child worships his parents, is as for it an example of « return to sender ».
- It is less obvious to consider that (French) « s'éclater, se défoncer, s'envoyer en l'air, se fendre la gueule » may result from the reflexive transformation of a parental « je l'éclate, je le défonce, je l'envoie en l'air, je lui fends la gueule ». It is however quite simply the freudolacanian thesis of reversibilityReversibilityReversibility can refer to:* Reversible dynamics, a mathematical dynamical system, or physical laws of motion, for which time-reversed dynamics are well defined* Reversible diffusion, an example of a reversible stochastic process...
between subject and object in fantasyFantasy (psychology)Fantasy in a psychological sense is broadly used to cover two different senses, conscious and unconscious. In the unconscious sense, it is sometimes spelled "phantasy".-Conscious fantasy:...
. The auto-aggressiveness which ranges from exhibition to danger up to suicide is coupled with a hetero-aggressiveness which ranges from the disrespect to others up to their destruction, both of them uniting in the example of the terrorist exploding with his bomb. It is possible to admit in the parricide a « return to sender » to the parent dreaming about infanticide.
Minimal semantic features or "atoms" extracted from these verbs and adjectives are precisely those who constitute the two series :
- series destruction-disappearance-moving away-change, or A series.
- series conservation-integrity-stability, or B series.
Attempt at a linguistic description
The two points of view I and E, and their combinations (speeches), recall the lects described by Michel Le Guern (1983) [2] :A language is a polyhierarchy of subsystems. Some [...] offer to speakers choices between
various variants. Each one [is] a lect. Lects [...] will be allocated neither to an individual,
nor to a social category, nor to a geographical area, nor to a particular type of communication.
They will be studied "in itself ", in their pure oppositive relations [...].
- The two series of atoms A and B are therefore lists of minimal semantic features (or Seme (semantics)|semes) compared urgent term, for example open / close, flexible / rigid, distant / close.
-The complex signifiers
Sign (semiotics)
A sign is understood as a discrete unit of meaning in semiotics. It is defined as "something that stands for something, to someone in some capacity" It includes words, images, gestures, scents, tastes, textures, sounds – essentially all of the ways in which information can be...
(verbs, complex adjectives, nouns, adverbs) do not a priori belong to series. It is possible for each of them to describe its composition in atoms.
- Expressions and frozen expressions,
It is often possible to find out simple rules of calculation to determine the series of an expression with the form Verb + Direct object, using its elements :
- Verb A + Noun B → expression A
- Verb B + Noun A → expression B
- Verb A + Noun A → expression A
- Verb B + Noun B → expression B
The study of these expressions allows to compare the ways to describe the same referent using the different points of view (it is possible to list the "translations" of an expression from a point of view into another).
- The sentences. As well as symmetrical expressions exist, it is possible to meet :
1. symmetrical sentences,
2. symmetrical analogies,
3. symmetrical proverbs, aphorisms and maxims.
- The texts of variable length.
- The biographies. It is possible to consider a biography to be a text which argues in favour of one of the identifications described sooner, as a subjective lect (a subjilect), a speech deriving from an identification to the parental discourse.
Rules and comments
- Each and every perception, event, and content can be talked of in at least two ways, two different forms.- Rules of the « dialogical game » : CONSENSUS, CONFLICT
- CONSENSUS (agreement of opinion on the content). Whenever there is consensus, the words of the other party are translated by the speaker into « his own » speech.
- CONFLIT : there might be disagreement on the content (issue of the debate) or on the form (kind of speech).
- Cross-overs from one point of view to the other : they may be structural or conjonctural
- Structural (dependant on the structure of a speech)
- Conjonctural (« exceptions confirming the rule »)
- Depreciation of a « friend-like » word or appreciation of a « fiend-like » word : when the speakers have to use in a negative manner a word of the series they value, and vice and versa.
- « Atoms » and « molecules » of a same series are potentially exchangeable within metaphorical expressions, even in cases when they are non-synonymous, or moreover incompatible at a cognitive level. These synonymies can only be explained by A.S.L.
To psychoanalysis
A.L.S allows a logicized presentation of clinical descriptions in neuroses, thus avoiding some confusions. For example:- The notion of « I or E » speech helps better understanding of why typical phobics are simultaneously agoraphobic (I point of view) and claustrophobic (E point of view).
- The possible confusion between obsessional discourse and discourse of the University is overcome thanks to the terminology of A.S.L. (« conservative » speech and « constructive » speech). Indeed Lacan often considers these two designations to be synonyms. And the logic of the « I → I » speech (counterpart of obsessional discourse) makes its assimilation impossible to university discourse (counterpart of the « E → I » speech) : the first assumes an initial perfection, a « inbred wisdom », incompatible with the acquisition of new knowledge (the obsessed man/woman is « full of dirty ignorance », and nevertheless pedant) ; the second assumes a secondary perfectibility and allows one to « fill up with knowledge » in order to redeem a « mad » and not very studious youth, and to acquire the respectability which one had not at first.
The validation of A.L.S allows as an indirect consequence to contribute to « upstream » validation of general theses which it presupposes (Lacan, 1966 ), notably:
- The subject of unconsciousUnconscious mindThe unconscious mind is a term coined by the 18th century German romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
represented in languageLanguageLanguage may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
, « perfectly accessible to the calculation of conjecture » and pertaining to « the inscription of a combinatory the exhaustion of which would be possible », - the fundamental notion that « the desire of man is the desire of Other »,
- The reversibility between subject and object in phantasyFantasy (psychology)Fantasy in a psychological sense is broadly used to cover two different senses, conscious and unconscious. In the unconscious sense, it is sometimes spelled "phantasy".-Conscious fantasy:...
.
« Series and speeches » can also and especially be applied to the discourses of the analysts.
The analysts being made with the same "clay" as their patients, the analytical discourse should not consist simply in their statements, often fantastical. To characterise it, it is easier to proceed by elimination, to say what it is not, as the identification of the different phantasies goes along.
- On the goals of the analytical "therapy", it can exist an unconscious complicity between the analyst and his patient in a common phantasy, when they share the same speech, what A.S.L. can detect. And such phantasies have an effect on the practice and effects of analyses, which in that case, instead of sending back all the identifications back to back to tend towards the "désêtre", the subjective deposition (Lacan), take back the "analysing one" in a neurotic speech only dressed with psychoanalytic jargon.
- On theory : analytical literature is swarming with suspicious conceptualisations, which sometimes put forward as an alibi the « structure of fiction of truth ». A.S.L. allows, in this jungle of « analytical » productions, to make a first sorting between the wrong tracks (banally fantastical) and potentially interesting hypotheses (in the operating sense by Gardin), which then remain to demonstrate.
A.L.S. cannot apply directly to the psychoanalytic "therapy". Thus the applications of A.S.L., method based on psychoanalytic theses, are mostly extra-psychoanalytic.
To semantics
Since there is subjective universaux, distinct from cognitive universaux, following from the genesis of identifications, and exceeding the style of an author, the languages or the epochs, A.S.L. has some explicative potential, or even predictive in the semanticsSemantics
Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata....
of rhetoric figures. This can be seen in cognitively unexplainable synonymies. So the MORFLER article of the Dictionary of non conventional French (Cellard, on 1980) points out: «(1) to receive (blows, bullet): of series Morfiler, « to eat », by figurative passage to « to take »(cf. "déguster"). (2) to speak, to confess, to report : incomprehensible meaning. It must be a confusion between "Morfler" and "Moufter" (to speak)».
To rhetorics and to argumentation
Each one is made by his parent the lawyer of a type of identification, therefore is dedicated to a kind of lexical advocacy. To hear "his" dialect or the opposing dialect provokes adhesion or opposition, consensus or conflict. Series are therefore tanks of metaphoric elements with argumentative value, where one scoop out to argue without using reasoning"Misunderstanding being the thing best shared in the world, A.S.L. has consequences in the field of negotiation. It allows to explain and sometimes to solve misunderstanding generative either of conflicts (cf. § Rules of " dialogic game") or wrong consensus bound to break.
To poetry and to litterature
Baudelaire (1993) [7] declared (Salon of 1859): « Rhetorics and prosodies are not tyrannies arbitrarily invented, but collection of rules claimed by the organisation of the spiritual being ».These rules of the subjective organisation intervene in composition as well in reception of the literary text. A.S.L. adds a dimension to the classical or modern analyses. Independently of poetic singularity (singularity of the poet by its biography, singularity of the poem by its place in work and by its unique character), it searches :
- the common denominator to the author, to his heirs (other " accursed poets " for example) and to his readers : who appreciates him, who rejects him, and in which terms (networks of complicity). A study on Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, to be published, shows the reliability of this approach.
- constancy or variation of its "point of view" in the course of his life. So Aragon (1977) passes from E point of view to I point of view, as shown by the opposite prefaces of 1924 and 1964 of Le libertinage [8], unlike Paul Nizan who stays in the dialect E → E.
To translations
One can take into account the level of language of terms to be translatedTranslation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
, and to render depending on circumstances original expression either by « perdre la raison », or « devenir fou », or « péter les plombs ».. But it is unlikely that they differentiate, at the same level of language, between "fondu" and "givré
Givré
Givré is a dessert that consists of sorbet in a frozen coconut or fruit shell....
" or they enter « y passer » and « y rester » (pseudosynonyms) there. Of this fact the reader will be deprived of a key information concerning the personality of the author (autobiography), or the psychology of the character.
To all human sciences
Brunetto LatiniBrunetto Latini
Brunetto Latini was an Italian philosopher, scholar and statesman.-Life:...
wrote in the Middle Ages (The Book of Treasure): « Tullius [Marcus Tullius Cicero] said that the highest science of city governing is rhetorics, that is the science of speech ; because if speech did not exist, neither would city exist nor any establishment of justice or of human company ».
Lakoff (1985) and Johnson point out : « Metaphors can create realities, especially social realities », and J. Molino (1979) [9]: « Metaphor
Metaphor
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via...
, at the moment when linguists rediscover its importance, appears therefore as a strategical instrument of analysis of culture ... But if metaphor is necessary to the interpretation of cultures, would not it be at the same time one of its essential ingredients ? ».
For A.S.L., which here agrees with Lacan
Lacan
Lacan is surname of:* Jacques Lacan , French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist** The Seminars of Jacques Lacan** From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power, a book on political philosophy by Saul Newman** Lacan at the Scene* Judith Miller, née Lacan...
, metaphor
Metaphor
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via...
is constituent of phantasy, and institutions (which are based on statements or texts), social realities and cultures are only aspects of the subjective text or « psychical reality » which derives from our condition of speaking beings. And so one can and must, to understand them, approach the study of "human being" from the angle of speech. A.S.L., among other methods, can contribute to the critic of psychological, sociological, economic, political, philosophical, or even pseudo-psychoanalytic explanations of "discontents in civilisation
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. Written in 1929, and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur , it is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works....
" : learning to raise the pertinent questions - i.e. in any "theory" to look for phantasy - is imperative before even beginning to look for solutions. Indeed the speaker described by A..S.L. as the simple spokesperson of a "cleared out from its singularity identification" is no more neither the individual subject of psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
, nor the collective subject of sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
: « it speaks », there is no author, were he unique or numerous, of speeches and their effects.
See also
External links
Literature
- Arrivé (M.). 1994. Langage et psychanalyse, linguistique et inconscient. Paris : P.U.F.
- Cathelat (B.) & Cathelat (M.). 1992. Panorama des styles de vie 1960-90. Paris : Les Éditions d’organisation.
- Dumarsais (C.). 1730. Des tropes ou des différents sens dans lesquels on peut prendre un même mot dans une même langue. Paris : Broca. Réédition présentée, commentée et annotée par Douay, F. (1988). Paris : Flammarion.
- Dupriez (B.). 1984. Gradus, les procédés littéraires. Paris : 10/18.
- Gardes-Tamine (J.). 1996. La rhétorique. Paris : Armand Colin.
- Gardin (J.-C.) & Molino (J.). 1987. La logique du plausible, essais d'épistémologie pratique en sciences humaines. Paris : Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.
- Lakoff, G., Johnson, M. (1985). Les métaphores dans la vie quotidienne. Paris : Les Éditions de Minuit.
- Le Guern (M.). 1973. Sémantique de la métaphore et de la métonymie. Paris : Larousse.
- Milner (J.-C.)Jean-Claude MilnerJean-Claude Milner is a linguist, philosopher and a French essayist. In particular, he is a specialist in the field of both linguistics and psychoanalysis...
. 1989. Introduction à une science du langage. Paris : Seuil, Coll. « Des travaux ». - Milner (J.-C.). 1995. « Linguistique et psychanalyse ». in : Encyclopædia Universalis France [version CD-Rom].
- Molino (J.), Soublin (F.) & Tamine (J.). 1979. « Présentation : problèmes de la métaphore ». in : Langages, 54.
- Rastier (F.). 1987. Sémantique interprétative. Paris : P.U.F.
- Ronat (M.). 1974. « Énonciation et « grammaire » de l'inconscient ». in : L'Arc, 58, pp. 73–78.
- Tamba-Mecz (I.). 1981. Le sens figuré. Paris : P.U.F.