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The term "[[psychosis]]" is used in [[psychoanalysis]] to describe a ''severe mental disorder'', more serious than [[neurosis]], characterized by disorganized thought processes, disorientation in [[time ]] and [[space]], hallucinations[[hallucination]]s, and delusions[[delusion]]s. Paranoia Types of [[psychosis]] include [[paranoia]], [[manic depression]], [[megalomania]], and [[schizophrenia are all psychoses]].
==Jacques Lacan==
===History===[[PsychosisJacques Lacan]] is defined as one of the three 's interest in [[clinical structurepsychosis]]s, one of which is defined by the operation of predates his interest in [[foreclosurepsychoanalysis]]. In this operationIndeed it was his doctoral research, the which concerned a [[Name-of-the-Fatherpsychotic]] is not integrated in the [[symbolic order|symbolic universewoman]] of the whom [[psychoticLacan]] (it is "calls [[foreclosedAimée]]"), with the result that a hole is left in the [[symbolic order]]. To speak of a hole in the first led [[symbolic orderLacan]] is not to say that the [[psychoticpsychoanalytic theory]] does not have an [[unconscious]]; on the contrary, in [[psychosis]] "the unconscious is present but not functioning."<ref>{{S31932}} p. 208</ref> The It is common to comapre [[psychoticLacan]] 's totured and at times almost incomprehensible style of writing and speaking to the discourse of [[structurepsychotic]] thus results from a certain malfunction of the [[Oedipus complexpatient]], a s. [[lackLacan]] in the 's discussions of [[paternal functionpsychosis]]; more specifically, in are among the most signiifncant and original aspects of his work. [[psychosisLacan]] the 's most detailed discussion of [[paternal functionpsychosis]] is reduced to the appears in his [[imageseminar]] of the 1955-6, entitled simply ''[[fatherSeminar III|The Psychoses]] (''. It is here that he exponds what come to be the main tenets of the [[symbolicLacan]] is reduced ian approach to the [[imaginarymadness]]).
===Clinical Structure===[[Psychosis]] is defined as one of the three [[clinical structure]]s, one of which is defined by the operation of [[foreclosure]]. In this operation, the [[Name-of-the---Father]] is not integrated in the [[symbolic order|symbolic universe]] of the [[psychotic]] (it is "[[foreclosed]]"), with the result that a hole is left in the [[symbolic order]]. To speak of a [[lack|hole]] in the [[symbolic order]] is not to say that the [[psychotic]] does not have an [[unconscious]]; on the contrary, in [[psychosis]] "the unconscious is present but not functioning."<ref>{{S3}} p. 208</ref> The [[psychotic]] [[structure]] thus results from a certain malfunction of the [[Oedipus complex]], a [[lack]] in the [[paternal function]]; more specifically, in [[psychosis]] the [[paternal function]] is reduced to the [[image]] of the [[father]] (the [[symbolic]] is reduced to the [[imaginary]]).
====Psychotic Phenomena====
In [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]] it is important to distinguish between [[psychosis]], which is a [[clinical structure]], and [[psychotic]] phenomena such as [[delusions]] and [[hallucinations]]. Two conditions are required for psychotic phenomena to emerge: the [[subject]] must have a [[psychotic]] [[structure]], and the [[Name-of-the-Father]] must be "called into symbolic opposition to the subject."<ref>{{E}} p. 217</ref> In the [[absence]] of the first condition, no confrontation with the paternal signifier will ever lead to psychotic phenomena; a [[neurotic]] can never "become psychotic."<ref>{{S3}} p. 15</ref> In the [[absence]] of the second condition, the [[psychotic]] [[structure]] will remain latent. It is thus conceivable that a [[subject]] may have a [[psychotic]] [[structure]] and yet never develop [[delusions]] or experience [[hallucination]]s. When both conditions are fulfilled, the [[psychosis]] is "triggered off," the latent [[psychosis]] becomes manifest in [[hallucination]]s and/or [[delusions]].
==Borromean Knot==
<!-- In the 1970s [[Lacan]] reformulates his approach to [[psychosis]] around the notion of the [[borromean knot]]. The three rings in the [[knot ]] represent the three [[orders]]: the [[real]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[imaginary]]. While in [[neurosis]] these three rings are linked together in a particular way, in [[psychosis]] they become disentangled. This [[psychotic]] disassociation may sometimes however be avoided by a [[sinthome|symptomaatic formation]] which acts as a fourth ring holding the other three together.-->
==Treatment==
