Abstract:
Based on the lacanian quotation: “the schizophrenic speech… with no help from a established discourse”, this article shows how the concept of discourse works as a clinical contribution to the diagnosis of schizophrenia, by analyzing fragments from clinical cases. The singular way in which the patient (does not) bound to the Other allows the analysis of Schizophrenia’s negative symptoms, grounded on new aspects. According to psychoanalysis, those symptoms are approached taking the subject’s relation with language into account. This article also presents semblant’s function in discourse and how it is deconstructed by the Schizophrenic’s irony.
Keywords:
Schizophrenia’s cases; discourse; semblant; Oedipus; irony