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Criminalistic theory and practice, Vol. 7. No. 1/2020., 2020.

Review article

SCAN REVISITED THROUGH LINGUISTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS

Mirt Komel ; Faculty of social sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Karmen Šterk ; Faculty of social sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Aleš Župan Galunić ; Ministry of Interior of Slovenia
Goran Savić ; Ministry of Interior of Slovenia

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Abstract

The Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN) was – despite its name –
often reproached for not being enough or not at all “scientific”. Sapir and
his followers tried to demonstrate its scientific validity by relying mainly
on statistics and psychology. This article proposes a different approach:
in the first step epistemologically rethink SCAN through the humanistic
science of linguistics as founded by de Saussure and further developed by
Jakobson, Derrida and others – while in the second step enhance it with
theoretical psychoanalysis in the variant of Ljubljana’s Lacanian School
of Psychoanalysis. All the theoretical work of the first part of this article
will be then tested on a case study taken from Slovenian contemporary
murder investigations, the so-called “Radan case”.

Keywords

scientific content analysis; psychology; humanistic science of linguistics; theoretical psychoanalysis, Ljubljana’s Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis

Hrčak ID:

252813

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/252813

Publication date:

18.6.2020.

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