Abstract

ROVALETTI, María Lucrecia. SCHIZOPHRENIA, SENSE AND NONSENSE. rev.colomb.psiquiatr. [online]. 1999, vol.28, n.4, pp.335-343. ISSN 0034-7450.

Traditionalpsychiatry has sentencedschizophrenia to be explained from an anarchy of disgregaron. Converse/y, however, phenomenology considers schizophrenia to be an experience, a human possibility trascending a mere symptomatology. Says Heidegger: madness «Wahnsinn», does not point out to a way of thinking that indulges in things sense-less. The ven/ etymology of "Whan" (Wana, in Old Germán) refers to "sense" on the one hand. On the other hand, Sinnen means to tend to, to go forward to -without, however, being devoid of sense. A schizophrenic patient, however, in his or her going forward to... is isolated, walking along in the desert of incomprehension andsilence. Such a metamorphosis ofintersubjectivity expresses a profound modification in the way a person has to communicate with others and the world -that is, an evanescence of the usual mundana, interpersonal articulation coupled to a consequent dissolution of the original (Heimat and a loss of natural evidences (Blankenburg). Such an experience in "strangeness" Entfremdung means that you may be banished from familiarity but, at the same time, you are going along and away to some other places where you will create, and fence a spot you can stay in. Such a loneliness has also the meaning of a longing for going back to a fatherland lost, and a longing also for some presence able and willing to accompany you, and listen to you. So, how can we capture that knot of entangled meanings the strands of which seem to part away from ours?.

Keywords : Psychopatology; Anthropology; Phenomenology; Schizophrenia.

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