Psychosis
Psychotic Phenomena
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, it is important to distinguish between psychosis -- which is a clinical structure -- 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."[1]
- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1977. p.217