Comment l'analyse vient corrompre la qualité d'observation

Surgery grounds its practice in a single word: semiology. This term underpins Greek medicine (a medical notion found in Galen, 2nd century AD). It denotes the science of the signs of disease, strengthened by the expression semeion pathon, literally “the causes and signs of chronic and acute illnesses”. The word entails an essential quality: observation. This opens up the question of the nuances between to observe, to look, and to see, and, by extension, the matter of analysis(analusis). We will examine how and why analysis can corrupt the material offered by observation. In parallel, we will work with the verbs to correlate and to concord, and their close relation to the pair looking–observing vs seeing–analysing.