A Semiotic Analysis of the Expression of Antithetical Emotional States

Our aim in the present analysis is to interpret gestures, facial expressions, micro expressions, behaviors that accompany a particular speech / message that appear in a moment of extreme emotional tension. We are interested in contradictory emotional tension, one that occurs concurrently crying and laughing on the background of two trends of schizoid behavior. The support of this analysis is given of the many interpretations of the aria Vesti la giubba in the opera Pagliacci by Leoncavallo. We start this analysis with the following problems: how to achieve conscious control paraverbal language in situations of emotional tension? How do we obtain the empathy of the recipient with the affective tension that is passed to him by the game of gestures conscious / unconscious? Is this emotional tension a paradoxical state that we associate with the category of the sublime? The problem is approached from the perspective of semiotics and psychoanalytic; we try to identify the foundation of psycho-affective paraverbal sign. Thus, the findings converge to the emotional contradictory energy association with the aesthetic intellectualization of this event.