[The problem of the linguistic and scientivic position of psychopathology in the framework of current psychiatry].

An attempt has been made to explain on the one hand the significance of the psychopathological terminology. In contrast to the "dynamic psychiatry", where the language has preponderantly an anticipating, finalizing character with regard to the therapeutical process, it is here being made clear that the cognition of the full existence requires a defined analysis in case of a psychic distrubance. A conceivable aspiration for orderliness thus opens the way to impartial objectiveness. To a special extent the psychiatrist here appears to be obliged to the word itself, particularly within the framework of transcultural psychiatric research, that is, both in regard to philosophical and cultural-historical conditions. The figurative and symbolic character of the language seems to be necessary in psychopathology to make clear the existence of a psychopathological state of mind for lack of another system of definition. On the other hand, it should be shown that also psychopathology - without being subjected to foreign infiltration of a philosophysing medical doctrine - must be embedded in the philosophical way of thinking, if it will not evade an answer to the all important question of a finiteness or infiniteness of man beyond all positive ways of thinking by the fact of the psychophysical problems amid its science and the unique irrationality thereof.