SYMPTOMATIC REPETION IN APHASIC SPEECH

Abstract

Aphasia is a symptomatic linguistic condition that a subject may experience after brain injury. Some cases of aphasics with severely disturbed speech are noteworthy. These speeches are paralyzed as an insistent return of the same fragment. The speech therapy segments of two aphasic patients are presented to exemplify the “symptomatic repetition”. The idea of repetition as a difference is questioned, based on the theoretical proposal called Clinical Language. The notion of signifier is shaken. Logically, the term repetition cannot be attributed to events. Repetition in such cases is semblant.