Semiotic capacity of insanity: thought disorder modelling as a tool for possible text world making (based on texts by S. Lem)

The thought disorders issue is common for the literature and is supposed to be used in different ways: from revealing the conundrum between the psychic of the character and the outer world to creation of the hypertext, multifunctional view of the text world. It was S. Lem who did use the thought disorders to create the fantasy view of the world which was supposed to be drastically different from the reality. The focus of this article will be on the study of examples of making the possible text world by means of thought disorders expressions in the texts by S. Lem (“Fables for Robots”, “The Star Diaries”, “The Futurological Congress”). Particularly, we are inclined to analyze indexes, icons and symbols as the sign system of the text, that enable the author to create the fantasy view of the text world. Thus, one might recognise an example of the dissolved thinking in the dialog between Ijon Tichy and the sales-assistant about sepulkas. This thought disorder is characterised by wrong, unusual complex of opinions, when random concepts are wired one after another without any sense. As a result, the chain of senseless and incomprehensible concepts is made, for instance: sepulkas, sepulkarium, kachezh and so on. The semiotic capacity of these signs comprises the distance from reality, when characters use unknown concepts seemingly well-known for other characters in the text. In conclusion, the fantasy view of the text world appears to be more seomiotically autonomous and independent from the real world.