Gragoatá (Jul 2005)
The anagrammatic function of the proper name in psychotic writing
Abstract
Two approaches are provided by linguistics to consider proper names: from the designation point of view and from the virtual interpellation of a subject for utterance. Following psychoanalysis discourse, Lacan (Seminar The identification, unpublished) proposes other propriety for proper names: the definition expression, in the sense of a set of possibilities and determinations around the significant, marks an act of decipherment for the subject. On regarding the three considerations I propose another function for the psychotic writing: the anagrammatic one, in the sense that a name may guide silently the self-writing. On book Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken, Schreber (1903), recluse at SONNENSTEIN, a mental diseases asylum, in Germany, writes about his experience of self-transforming in the woman chosen by God to procreate another race. The asylum's name acts as an anagrammatic function of Significant-master in association with familiar name Schreber, allowing the autobiography a construction of a disillusioned metaphor in an effort to turn public the private experience of psychoses.
