Une lecture, avec Georges Lantéri-Laura, de quelques postulats de la pathologie du langage dans la psychiatrie du XX siècle

While contributing to the phenomenological elucidation of the psychiatric field, George Lantéri-Laura proceeded to the diachronic study of the possible conditions of linguistic studies.He showed how, at the end of the XIX^th century, a certain number of postulates - Bouillaud, Baillarger and Séglas - constituted the implicit basis of later semiology of language. We may add the postulate of the independence of word, idea and the ideational theory of the meaning proper to the philosophy of associationism.At the end of XX^th Century, while the transformation of associationism took place, a theoretical change encouraging the idea of a field which is neither translinguistic, nor universal. Refusing to regard this question as closed, G Lantéri-Laura proposed his own structural reading of semantic disorders in psychiatry by including the stylistic study, and beyond the strictly structuralist point of view the study of the autobiographical narration. This approach studies the links of language and subjectivity as, linguistics of enunciation (linguistic pragmatics), as French psychoanalysis has done since the Sixties, by questioning the ordinary dialogism of the inner language and its troubles, in particular verbal hallucinations, it also studies the heterogeneity of discourse, and the modalities according to which the subject of enunciation is explicitly inscribed, or not, in statements.