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The [[lack]] of sufficient ''[[points de capiton]]'' means that the [[psychotic]] experience is characterized by a constant [[slip]]page of the [[signified]] under the [[signifier]], which is a disaster for [[signification]].
<blockquote>There is a continual "cascade of reshapings of the signifier fromw hich the increasing disaster of the imaginary proceeds, until the level is reached at which signifier and signified are stablized in the delusional metaphor."<ref>{{E}} p. 217</ref></blockquote>
Another way of describing this is as "a relationship between the subject and the signifier in its most formal dimension, in its dimension as a pure signifier."<ref>{{S3}} p.250</ref>
<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]]
