Semiology of the Subject in Medicine, in Psychiatry as well as in Psychoanalysis

Abstract

This article shows that there is a common ethic in three disciplines: medicine, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. None of these is a science (in the same sense as physiology, biology and the natural sciences), even when each one of them bases itself on the sciences. As a consequence, only the clinic, or rather, the art of classification and observation that include the patient (or subject) distinguishes each one from the other sciences.

In other words, even when each one entails a different conception of the subject, they have as a common denominator to be able to exist only because men feel a break with the norm: the sick in their bodies or in their psychism. However, it is thanks to the existence of these disciplines that these same men can know in what way they are sick and what their sickness and ailment is made of.