Intentional Understanding Through Action Coordination in Early Triadic Interactions.

The ability to understand the behaviour of other people in intentional terms has been traditionally explained by resorting to inferential mechanisms that would allow individuals to access the internal mental states of others. In recent years, the second-person perspective has established itself as a theoretical alternative to traditional models. It argues that intentional understanding is an embodied, natural, and immediate process that occurs in situations such as face-to-face early dyadic interactions between adults and infants. In this article, we argue that the way in which the second-person perspective regards body and object is problematic. Based on psychological evidence that demonstrates the constitutive role of the body and objects for cognitive development, we propose the foundations of an ecological-enactive, semiotic and pragmatic model of intentional understanding. We argue that intentional understanding should be conceived as the skilful coordination of behaviours that subjects come to enact in interactive settings, following the dynamics of bodily and material practices that have acquired normative force over time.

La histeria: entre la mística y la locura. Madeleine Lebouc / The Hysteria: between mystics and madness. Madeleine Lebouc

El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo analizar un caso clásico en la psiquiatría: La Madeleine Lebouc, célebre paciente de Pierre Janet. Caso paradigmático de locura histérica que ha dado lugar a diversas investigaciones socio-históricas y psicoanalíticas interesadas en articular los elementos de su itinerario religioso y psicopatológico. Santa para su Director de conciencia; falsa mística para los teólogos, “extática” para Janet, se producen recubrimientos de categorías psiquiátricas y religiosas bajo el intento de discernir si sus síntomas constituyen una experiencia sobre Dios, intervención de la gracia divina, o si son explicables en el marco de la histeria. Para su desarrollo, se ha elegido tomar como punto de partida la biografía de Pauline Lair Lamotte, la correspondencia, recuerdos y testimonios de sus vivencias durante las fases patológicas, material extraído de las comunicaciones que el propio Janet realizó del caso (Janet, 1926) y de los documentos originales reunidos por Jacques Maître (MAÎTRE, 1993).