Note sulla pragmatica comunicativa e sulla relazione intersoggettiva

Communication can only happen if there is inter-subjectivity. If you communicate with no one, you do not communicate. The study of communication disorders and their languages, verbal and nonverbal, allows us to investigate also the pathology of the relationship between subjects. In communication, the aspects concerning the relationship between subjects who communicate are on the same level as the communicated message. In fact, if we think about it, we understand when there is contradiction between the utterance and the mental state with which it is said. In analysis of the most serious mental illness it is clear. It is also clear that, in cases of ‘double bind’, the paradoxical bond that binds the most is more related to the love for the subject who orders the impossible thing, respect to the impossible thing that is ordered. To stay away from the most serious forms of disease, the inter-subjective relationship must practice the recognition. Good communication exists where two who are related recognize themselves in their own truth. If this truth is always hidden by the linguistic sign, then it doesn’t exist, because there is only the sign, which becomes a sign of nothing. Therefore, language cannot keep us indefinitely far from the truth of communicated things and from the truth of the relationship that we live when we communicate.