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In the 1946 paper he reiterates his earlier view that a specifically [[psyche|psychical]] [[cause]] is needed to explain [[psychosis]]; however, he also questions the possibility of defining "[[psychical]]" in terms of a simple opposition to the concept of matter, and this leads him, in 1955, to dispense with the simplistic notion of "psychogenesis."<ref>{{S3}} p. 7</ref>.
In the 1950s [[Lacan]] begins to address the very concept of [[causality]] itself, arguing that it is to be situated on the border between the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]]; it implies "a mediation between the chain of symbols and the real."<ref>{{S2}} p.192</ref>.