The paper explores the difference between semiology and hermeneutics of pain and suffering by focusing on narrativity and the body. First. it recapitulates some historical distinctions between explaining and understanding in the context of psychopathology. It shows how the hermeneutic method culminates in the idea of the cohesion of life. https://www.ealisboa.com/flash-choice-Sten-Jacket-M-flash-find/