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Une certaine psychopathologie actuelle, sous influence anglo-saxonne, voit son champ de compétences supposé s’étendre en considérant comme pathologiques certaines bizarreries relativement banales de l’existence. Face à cette pathologisation, certains groupes militent pour la reconnaissance de leur trouble comme simple variante normale de la vie. Cet écrit tente de mettre en perspective ces deux mouvements parallèles et de les opérationnaliser, notamment par la notion de dialectique.

For a Dialectic Conception of the Symptom in the Study of Nosographical Conceptualisations in Psychopathology. Some fields of contemporary psychopathology, under Anglo-Saxon influence, are currently undergoing an extension of their supposed area of competence and now venture to consider some of the ordinary oddities of human existence as being pathological. Against this ‘over-pathologising’logic, patient groups have begun to fight for the recognition of their disorder as a simple variant of a normal life. This study attempts to place these two parallel movements into perspective and make them operational by including the concept of dialectics.