Formalising Disorganisation

A friend talked to me about my clinical disorganisation speech patterns. I immediately thought of thought-speech nexus that classifies such signs. If you don't say a thing you usually can't be evaluated, with any full diagnostic confidence anyway.

But riffing with her I realised that I had crafted some phrases knowingly with a disorganised formality.

A disorganised sentence can be a word salad which is just free jazz to me. And thus a pre-theoretical formal plane of practice exists. In this case music. And that's reducible to noise, audial, signalistic (I'm meaning something like brain "noise" too) we have a relational plane.

With disorganisational phrasing what is at operation in the utterance is microterm memory loss. In the disorganised utterance themes might be revisited once thematic memory is regained in the span of the utterance. The wending (or to use the language of the clinic: "derailing") of the phrase gets resolved. This is similar to looping but in a far shorter timespan. Maybe it's also muxing or a rhizomatics qua structure. As music it's smooth. As derailment catching thematic tracks here and there it's approaching a coil or spiral form.

A mocked up example

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog and the cat, got up and pattered across a street and then a door opened near a tree, near a house, the cat saw a bear come out then the quick brown fox landed between them"

It's not like a long story with resolution after 20 minutes. Keeping with a thesis of form constant, formalising the disorganised language by crafted habit may provide some adaptive to its exaptive form.