Linguistic manifestation of human qualia in modern psychiatric discourse (a study of J.H. van den Berg’s "A Different Existence: Principles of Phenomenological Psychopathology")

Abstract

In order to accomplish the main goal of the study set above, the following tasks should be completed: • to clarify, what the notion of a quale is, the ways in which human emotion experience can belong to this notion; • to explore the notion of emotion from the psychological and phenomenological point of view; • to establish the list of emotion names and emotion concepts, which is supposed to be used as a basis for the practical part of the study; • to explore psychopathology of agoraphobia, panic disorder and existential changes of people living with these disorders; • to explore the mechanisms of conceptualisation, the ways in which conceptual metaphors shape human thought processes and experience; • to choose the methodology of conceptual metaphor analysis; • to apply the methodology of conceptual metaphor analysis to the piece of modern psychiatric discourse; • to analyse and systemise the results of the study, to advocate the idea, that metaphors are the most efficient way to convey emotion experience. • To report on the issue of metaphorical creativity in psychiatric discourse.