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garadinervi · 10 months

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Roland Barthes, Signs and Images. Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography, Essays and Interviews, Volume 4, Translated by Chris Turner, Seagull Books, London, 2016

(on the way of Barthes Studies, via Jeremy Fernando)

#graphic design #semiology #semiotics #calligraphy #visual writing #book #cover #book cover #roland barthes #chris turner #barthes studies #jeremy fernando #seagull books #2010s

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heardatmedschool · 4 months

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“Trust the signs and symptoms, my young Padawan.”

#medicine #med school #medblr #semiology #clinical practice #and remember #normal labs don’t mean the patient isn’t sick

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gali-in-distress · 1 year

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Diagnosing Nigel Colbie

This is going to be a long post

In an attempt to gain a better understanding of Nigel as a character, I decided to find a Psychopathological diagnosis that, in my opinion, would fit him, because to me it's very obvious that he's not what you would call a neurotypical individual.

Here is my diagnosis FOR NOW:

Disclaimer: I'm a psychology student, I didn't just made this up. That being said, I am only a student and lack the experience to be certain that this diagnosis is accurate. Secondly, Nigel is a fictional character, aka not a real person therefore it's impossible to truly diagnose him as you would do to a real person. I advice against using this as a guide to diagnose anyone irl, obviously.

CW: mentions of psychiatry terms, personality disorders and mental illnesses.

Semiology:

Qualitative disorders of affective nature

Indifferent behavior.

Incongruity : refered to having opposed emotional reactions to events that would normally have a different effect on people.

Irritability: exaggerated response to frustrated psychological needs.

In many instances Nigel shows almost no response to violent acts against himself or others. He acts coldly and is apparently unaffected by events that would at the very least upset anyone.

At the same time he reacts very intensively to being rejected by Alex at the very end.

I am almost 100% certain that when he went after Alex with the shotgun he was having a psychotic episode.

Cognitive disorders in relation to the Thinking Process:

Autistic thinking: presents itself as disconnected from reality.

Note: (Autistic thinking doesn't mean he's autistic, that's just the scientific term for that particular symptom)

Fixations.

Delusions of grandeur.

Delusions of reference: refered to an egocentric psychological development responsible for making the patient think that some things that happen in real life are directly related to them, gifting personal significance to unrelated events.

Nigel has very strong beliefs that he does not hide from Alex. He thinks they both are part of a line of great men destinated to bigger things. He finds connections in stories that, in his mind, ultimately lead to him and Alex, putting them both in the center of a prophecy of sorts. He is obsessed about this narrative he has created and eventually also obsesses over Alex and their relationship.

Conative disorders:

Altered social behavior manifested as reticence and homicidal and necrophiliac impulses.

Disordered relationship with self and others.

Nigel is presented as an introverted character who rarely speaks at the beginning of the story. Once he begins pulling Alex inside of his narrative, it's when we can see him be more open and sociable, but otherwise he doesn't seem to have any friends or relationships outside of Alex and his family. He doesn't seem interested in having them either. This itself wouldn't necessarily be a sign of a disorder, but, in addition to his violent and harmful behavior, it does create a pattern.

So far the final diagnosis I'm going for is Schizoid Personality Disorder.

Might elaborate on that later.

Update: Diagnosing Nigel Colbie Part II

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macrophagee · 2 days

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Is this anything

#medblr #med student #semiology

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mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora · 7 months

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Current level of brainrot: I actually stopped in order to photograph a street name just bc the name’s “Roland Barthes”

#i live in the fucking paris and i was genuinely surprised #and happily surprised #should i be worried?#YES #roland barthes #semiology #french writer #french philosophy #phd stuff #phd student #phd life #philosopher #writers #paris #paris france #mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora

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motivatemycollegelife · 1 year

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Neuro 🧠

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hecho-a-mano · 27 days

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no pressure but if you think that your analysis of someone else's actions is completely correct and coherent then you're almost certainly wrong.

#media analysis #psychology #semiotics #semiology #text #queue are lovely #rant sorta #video essay #academics

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garadinervi · 10 months

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From: Roland Barthes, (1975), Barthes di Roland Barthes, Translation by Gianni Celati, «Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi» (Nuova serie) 364, Einaudi, Torino, 2007

#graphic design #semiology #semiotics #handwriting #notation #book #roland barthes #gianni celati #piccola biblioteca einaudi #einaudi #1970s #2000s

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heardatmedschool · 11 months

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Student 1: My tummy hurts :(.

Student 2: Where?

Student 1: I don’t know.

Student 2: Thanks, visceral pain, useless as always.

#medicine #med school #medblr #semiology #pain

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gali-in-distress · 1 year

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Diagnosing Nigel Colbie. Part II

After overanalyzing Nigel for some time I decided upon one disorder that I consider matches with the previous semiology that I established for him here . For now this my diagnosis.

Disclaimer: This diagnosis might not be 100% accurate given that I cannot perform a proper (if any) differential diagnosis in order to rule out other similar disorders. The reason why I can't do that it's because Nigel is a fictional character and all of his "symptoms" are shown with a script in mind in the movie, on top of possibly being exaggerated by Alex, as an unreliable narrator. That being said DO NOT use this diagnosis of a fictional person as a reliable source of information to apply on anyone irl.

Schizoid Personality Disorder:

According to the DSM-V, it's a "pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts."

The Tell-Signs I found in Nigel are:

"Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family."

"Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives."

We never see Nigel really interacting with other people aside from his family and Alex. Not to mention how unhealthy even those relationships present themselves to be. This seems to be something usual for him, not having friends.

"Almost always chooses solitary activities."

"Takes pleasure in few, if any, activities."

Nigel is extremely focused on history, the order and whatever he has going on with the embalmed animals. These are all related and somehow end up connecting to death as a process.

"Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others."

"Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity."

Associated Features:

"Particular difficulty expressing anger, even in response to direct provocation, which contributes to the impression that they lack emotion."

"Reacts passively to adverse circumstances and have difficulty responding appropriately to important life events."

"Particularly in response to stress, individuals with this disorder may experience very brief psychotic episodes"

From what we can see in Nigel's final moments, how he switched from being calm and in control, to absolutely desperate, violent in a way he hadn't explicitly been before in the story and how he chooses to end his own life (if we take Alex's word for it) I believe that Nigel was experiencing a psychotic episode, one that he did not survive.

Diagnosing Nigel Colbie. Part I.

#nigel colbie #like minds #like minds movie #like minds 2006 #murderous intent #murderous intent movie #like minds analysis #nigel colbie analysis #text #psychology #semiology #cw mental illnesses #diagnosing nigel colbie

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the-hilda-librarians-wife · 7 months

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I headcanon Kaisa as being just slightly hypotensive. I’m thinking normal blood pressure around 11/7. Most importantly, I headcanon that occasionally it may drop and she knows, but doesn’t do anything about it.

So sometimes she’ll be in the library, and will be on her feet for too long, or maybe it’ll be too hot and she hasn’t let go of her cape, or maybe she even has been so caught up in her job that she hasn’t eaten or drink water in three hours. And she’ll begin sweating, and ignore it. Then she’ll feel lightheaded, and think it’s fine. And then her eyesight will get hazy, and she’ll think ‘nah, I can take it’. Then her hearing will sizzle and her mind will spin and she’ll still do nothing. And if someone’s nearby they’ll begin noticing she’s pale and unresponsive, and that’s because she’s trying to not fall down and wondering why she’s seeing dark spots. But mostly, that probably happens when she’s alone, so when she refuses to sit down and drink water/eat/lie down, she’ll just faint for a bit (on the hardwood floor. Ouch.) and get back within a couple of seconds (and just go about her day like nothing happened)

Anyway the place I’m trying to get to is: imagine Kaisa is hanging out with the Hilda gang for some reason, and at some point they notice the blood draining from her face and her eyes going unfocused and then she just drops unconscious on the floor with no prior warning. Imagine the chaos. Imagine Hilda about to slap her and being held back by David while Frida tries to remember the cpr training they had in the Sparrow Scouts. Imagine Kaisa waking back up suddenly and scaring the living shit out of them

Kaisa already has such undead vampire vibes, I just think that’d be hilarious 😭😭

#damn that’s how I know the academia is getting to me. I’m headcanoning BLOOD PRESSURE LEVELS #(btw I feel like I need to mention: having a lowered baseline blood pressure is GOOD. it’s PROTECTIVE. it HELPS.#walk around with a satchel of salt and you’ll be fine)#this post was brought to you by: me almost doing the same thing yesterday during my semiology practice lol #I walked away when I felt weak #went to get some water. came back to the patient’s history taking bc I felt fine #and then I felt worse! and I figured it’d be pretty weird to drop on the foot in front of the patient #poor dude was just there for his hemodialysis he was already being nice to the bunch of students #he did Not Need to see the chaos that one of them fainting right then and there would wreck #thank God some of the older students saw me trying to breathe deep on the chairs outside the dialysis room #they came to take my pressure and give me water and salt. angels <3 #that’s the good thing about studying in a hospital. if I feel bad I’m already there lmao #anyway. I’m right about Kaisa.#kaisa hilda #the hilda librarian

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guy60660 · 6 months

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