Représentations étiologiques et problématique identitaire dans la schizophrénie : tentatives de sortie du tourbillon psychotique

This work explores identity in schizophrenia and the role of etiological representations in self-constitution. Identity of the schizophrenic patients is often regarded as defective. This vision, by its reifying aspect, does not take into account the dynamics of any identity constitution and the possibilities of leaving the psychotic crisis. The identity of patients is more a suspended or syncopated identity. Plunged in the swirl of schizophrenic crisis, patients try to reconnect with their own history. Among the means, which they use, representations of the causes of the disease have a paradigmatic place. Patients try to get back to the everyday life of the world, by using social representations of their ill being. But this exchange of representations they engage with their entourage is not a simple way of communication. Using Ricœur's analysis, we show that etiological representations are metaphorical utterances. Considering their central position in the creation of the plot, the etiological representations allow to re-open the constitution of narrative identity, and so the harmonious articulation between the two poles: sameness and ipseity.