Psychiatric Semiology and Semiotics

Abstract

After remembering the historical conditions of the only institutionalized encounter among semioticians and psychiatrists in the 80’s in Paris, the author points out, from his point of view, the interests and the limits of the method of semiotic analysis applied to psychiatry and principally in the semiological field. Thus, Greimasian semiotics could give rise to a renewal of semiology, the psychiatric procedure being considered as a process of signification.