Interpretation of speech segments as the mechanism of psychotherapeutic semiosis (based on the material of I. Yalom's novel «The Schopenhauer cure»)

The article is devoted to describing the mechanisms of meanings origination in psychotherapeutic discourse. It determines the system-forming feature of such type of discourse - its interpretative nature. The work is a complete interdisciplinary study based on psycho-linguistic analysis of the speech of characters in I. Yalom’s literary work «The Schopenhauer Cure». It touches upon two scientific spheres - linguistic analysis and psychotherapy. Special attention is given to the problem of sign production by the study subject and the subsequent interpretation of the influence these signs have on a human. It raises the problem of the existence of certain regularity in the production of a specific sign or the certain spontaneity of this process. The key problem discussed in the study is the interpretation of signs and formation of meanings of these or those facts and events for a specific individual, while the facts and events themselves do not change.