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=====Mental Illness=====
"[[Psychosis]]" is a term first used in '''[[psychiatry|clinical psychiatry]]''' to refer to '''mental illness''' ''in general''.
=====Neurosis=====
However, [[Freud]] theorizes a basic distinction between "'''[[neurosis]]'''" and "[[psychosis]]", according to which "[[psychosis]]" denotes only a ''more severe'' type of '''mental illness''' and "'''[[neurosis]]'''" denotes a ''less severe'' type.
He argues that both '''[[neurosis]]''' and [[psychosis]] originate in a conflict between the [[ego]] and other agencies of the [[psyche]]: '''[[neurosis]]''' results from a conflict between the [[ego]] and the [[id]], and [[psychosis]] results from a disturbance in which the [[ego]]'s relationship with the [[moebius strip|external world]].
=====Sigmund Freud=====
[[Freud]] devoted relatively little attention to [[psychosis]], mainly because his theory of [[psychoanalysis]] was developed primarily with reference to [[neurosis]].
=====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]], in contrast, began his career by working with [[psychosis|psychotics]] in [[Sainte-Anne_hospital|psychiatric hospitals]] before he became a [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]]''', and elaborates a more specific theory of the origins of [[psychosis]].
[[Lacan]]'s interest in [[psychosis]] predates his interest in [[psychoanalysis]].
Indeed it was his doctoral research, which concerned a [[psychotic]] [[woman]] whom [[Lacan]] calls [[Aimée]] that first led [[Lacan]] to [[psychoanalytic theory]].<ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité]],'' Paris: Seuil, 1975 [1932]</ref>
=====Foreclosure and the Oedipus complex=====
When both conditions are fulfilled, the [[psychosis]] is "triggered off," the [[latent]] [[psychosis]] becomes [[manifest]] in [[hallucination]]s and/or [[delusions]].
===Psychosis and the ==Borromean Knot=====
In the 1970s [[Lacan]] his approach to [[psychosis]] around the notion of the [[borromean knot]].
<blockquote>"If the neurotic inhabits language, the psychotic is inhabited, possessed, by language."<ref>{{S3}} p. 250</ref></blockquote>
and elaborates a more specific theory of the origins of [[psychosis]]
==See Also==
* [[Foreclosure]]
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