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"[[Madness]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[folie]]'')
When [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[madness]]," or refers to someone as being "[[mad]]," he is referring to [[psychosis]]:
<blockquote>"The psychoses... correspond to what has always been callled and legitimately continues to be called ''madness''.<ref>{{S3}} p.4</ref>
[[Lacan]] adds that "there is no reason to deny oneself the luxury of the word."<ref>{{S3}} p.4</ref>
Thus far from seeing it as a derogatory term, [[Lacan]] values it for its poetic resonances, and approves of its use, on condition that it is used in the precise sense of [[psychosis]].
So, for example, in 1946 [[Lacan]] congratulates the French psychiatrist Henry Ey for "obstinately preserving the term."<ref>{{Ec}} p.154</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Psychosis]]
==References==
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[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
