Questions de méthode en psychiatrie anthropologique

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Abstract
The problem of the means of knowledge involved in the anthropological quest for the different other is discussed. A distinction is made between the subject''s discourse and his behavior. At a more abstract level, there appears to be a non-symbolized semantic order which presents itself as a set of formal rules characteristic of discourse and of behavior. These rules are verbalized in terms of a temporal frame of reference. The analysis of a psychiatric case leads to clear pictures of cultural discourse and behavior, the operations of which are noncultural in comparison with their social context. Those operations are first temporal, but evoke spatial and interactional analogies as well. They connect in a conceptual manner phenomena which are difficult to combine in the logic of a natural language, e.g., affectional conflicts, geographical, political and social reforms, alcoholism and gluttony. This understanding at a more abstract level retraces fundamental cultural experiences.

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