Seeking Meaning in the Incomprehensibility of Delusional Speech: A Narrative, Semiotic, and AI-Based Analysis

This work explores the meaning-seeking function within delusional speech, challenging the biomedical paradigm that interprets psychosis as pure dysfunction.
Through a narrative and semiotic lens, supported by computational semantic analysis and AI-assisted modeling, the author demonstrates that delusional discourse can be read as a coherent narrative of crisis and transformation, rather than a loss of reason.

The manuscript integrates Greimas’ and Propp’s structural narratology, Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective, and recent advances in topic modeling and natural language processing.
It argues that what appears incomprehensible often conceals a meaningful reorganization of identity and desire, and that psychiatry must rediscover its humanistic roots by listening to patients’ words as literature of the self.

This is the full manuscript of a larger project aimed at redefining the boundaries between madness, narrative, and meaning — an attempt to restore dignity and interpretability to psychotic language through dialogue between phenomenology and artificial intelligence.