Costantini M
Laboratoire EIDOS, Université François Rabelais, Tours.
Agressologie. 1993;34 Spec No 3:134-5.
Two researches merge together in this article: the former originates in coma clinical practice and aims at reaching a more abstract formulation, while the latter originates in the theory of narrative and tries to find practical applications. The interest of this merger lies in opening up a new field of study, comatics, whose object is to conceive the best possible conditions for comatose people, for specific varieties of comatose people and even for this or that individual comatose person to fit back into social life, which involves grasping meaning and clues and signals and signs, and finding one's way about in the circuit of communication. Comatics, in short, is semiotics as applied to awakening from comatose states.
前者源于昏迷临床实践，旨在得出更抽象的表述；而后者源于叙事理论，试图找到实际应用。这种结合的意义在于开辟一个新的研究领域——昏迷学，其目标是为昏迷患者、特定类型的昏迷患者乃至某个昏迷个体融入社会生活设想尽可能好的条件，这涉及理解意义、线索、信号和符号，并在交流循环中找到方向。简而言之，昏迷学就是应用于从昏迷状态苏醒的符号学。
