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In the [[{{Y}}|late 1920s]], [[Lacan]] singled out his [[concept ]] of "[[mental automatism]]". This brought together many seemingly disparate phnomena of [[madness]] under the common motif of ''something [[being ]] imposed from '[[outside]]'.'': the echo of [[thoughts ]] or a commentary on one's actions, for example.

The [[form ]] of a [[particular ]] [[psychosis]] would then be determined by how one ''[[signification|made sense]]'' of these elements which lacked an initial [[content]]. [[Lacan]] would say that this concept was the closest that contemporary [[France|French]] [[psychiatry]] got to a [[structural analysis]], with its emphasis on the imposition of [[formal ]] elements beyond the "[[conscious]]" [[control]] of the [[subject]].