The official definition for alexithymia dates back to 1973, when Sifneos described its symptoms. Persons affected by this condition are unable to verbally describe their feelings. For many years this condition was relatively little known, but nowadays people are talking about it more and more. In forums in which the patients’ comments are posted, it is often underscored how this particular mental state is similar to that of the androids described in the novel Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The Dickian clinical references were those in use during the 1960s. Therefore, to special characteristics that Philip Dick attributed to his robots (coldness and lack of human empathy, and simultaneous desire for social acceptance), the writer, and then the critics, assigned the label of schizophrenia, the only one that the psychiatric manuals of that time associated to such symptoms. Today, if Dick were alive and were to write about his androids, he most likely would no longer use the term schizophrenics, but instead the term alexithymics, which are more socially adaptive than schizophrenics, just like his androids. Making retrospective diagnoses of literary characters is anachronistic; as it was done for decades by critics to consider the Dickian androids schizophrenics: in the fiction story they are not schizophrenics but robots. However a new psychological trait such as alexithymia can revisit that same story by giving it a new symbolic meaning. The aims of this article are: to highlight how the old nosological categories of schizophrenia, generally referred to when commenting Do androids dream of electric sheep?, should be supplemented by the category of alexithymia; to analyze the scenes in which the characters have typical alexithymic behaviors, trying to prove that alexithymia is actually best suited for describing the androids invented by Dick.

检音障碍的正式定义可以追溯到1973年，当时Sifneos描述了它的症状。受此情况影响的人无法口头描述他们的感受。多年以来，这种情况鲜为人知，但如今人们越来越多地谈论它。在发表患者评论的论坛中，通常会强调这种特殊的心理状态与小说《做机器人的梦想-电绵羊》中描述的机器人的状态相似。？菲利普·迪克（Philip K.Dick）Dickian的临床参考资料是在1960年代使用的。因此，对于菲利普·迪克（Philip Dick）归因于他的机器人的特殊特征（冷漠和缺乏人类同理心，同时渴望获得社会认可），作者和评论家给精神分裂症贴上了标签，这是精神病学手册中唯一的标签。与这种症状相关的时间。今天，如果迪克还活着并写他的机器人，他很可能将不再使用精神分裂症这个词，而是使用像精神分裂症一样具有社会适应性的术语“词义学”，就像他的机器人一样。对文学人物进行回顾性诊断是不合时宜的；正如批评家数十年来所做的那样，考虑了迪克机器人的精神分裂症：在小说中，他们不是精神分裂症患者，而是机器人。但是，一种新的心理特质，例如运动障碍可以通过赋予它新的象征意义来重新审视同一故事。本文的目的是：突出说明在评论时通常提到的精神分裂症的旧疾病分类机器人是否梦想着电动绵羊？来分析角色具有典型的解毒行为的场景，试图证明解毒症实际上最适合描述Dick发明的机器人。