Coprolalia
The coprolalia ( Greek κοπρολαλία koprolalía - from: κόπρος kópros = "[the] dung", "[the] excrement" and λαλώ laló = "I speak") denotes a "continued tendency to use expressions and images of the digestive processes when speaking" . The Duden describes coprolalia as a "pathological tendency to pronounce indecent, obscene words (mostly from the anal area)".
Symptom in medicine
The Pschyrembel restricts Peters to "compulsive repetition of vulgar expressions from the fecal language ". In the Roche lexicon of medicine, however: “Coprolalia: 'poop language'; Inclination to sayings from the area of the digestive processes ”.
Coprolalia is known as a neurological-psychiatric symptom. Coprolalia has a special, almost characteristic meaning in Tourette's syndrome , where it appears in around 30% of those affected as a complex, vocal tic disorder , which is expressed in the fact that the person affected suddenly - for no discernible reason or purpose and arbitrarily unaffected - inappropriate or utters obscene words, sometimes several times in a row. Those affected by Tourette's syndrome experience this as an impulsive compulsion against which they can hardly or not at all defend themselves.
Stylistic devices in literature
Coprolalia also appears as a - mostly consciously used - stylistic device in literature.
See also
literature
- Uwe Henrik Peters: Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. 3. Edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-541-04963-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Henrik Peters: Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. 3. Edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-541-04963-4 , p. 313.
- ↑ Koprolalie in duden.de, accessed on April 12, 2014.
- ↑ M. Kobierska, M. Sitek, K. Gocyła, P. Janik: Coprolalia and copropraxia in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. In: Neurol Neurochir Pol. , 2014 Jan-Feb; 48 (1), pp. 1-7, PMID 24636763