Alcune note e un esempio su attività linguistica e psicoanalisi, Jorge Canestri

The purpose of these notes is to explore, from a particular angle - i.e. the study of the linguistic activity of the subjects - what we may temporarily call "the analyst's disposition", as well as the inferential and de-codifying operations of the different semiotic systems that the analyst carries out while listening to his patients. These operations are, to a certain measure, shared by the patients themselves, but this aspect of the problem will not be specifically dealt with in this article. The theoretical instruments used, aside from the psychoanalytical ones, are those of the philosophy of language and those of linguistics. They have been chosen because they are relevant, but also belong to a certain area of the theoretical thought on human communication that finds its own internal coherence in the emphasis granted to pragmatics, to the study of what the speaker does during the act of speaking. A clinical example tries to briefly illustrate the importance of the "implicatures" and the inferential processes in the communication between patient and analyst.