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==Jacques Lacan==
From his doctoral dissertation in 1932 on, <ref>{{1932}}</ref> one of the central quests which animates [[Lacan]]'s work is that of identifying a specific psychical cause for [[psychosis]].<ref>{{1932}}</ref>
In the course of addressing this problem, two themes are constant.
As early as 1938 [[Lacan]] relates the origin of [[psychosis]] to an exclusion of the [[father]] from the [[family]] [[structure]], with the consequent reduction of the latter to [[mother]]-[[child]] [[dual|relation]]s.<ref>{{1938}} p. 49</ref>
===Name-of-the-Father===
In 1954, when [[Lacan]] first turns to the [[Freud]]ian concept of ''[[foreclosure|Verwerfung]] '' in his search for a specific [[defence|mechanism]] for [[psychosis]], it is not clear exactly what is repudiated; it can be [[castration]] that is repudiated, or [[speech]] itself, or "the genital plane".<ref>{{S1}} p. 53, 58</ref>
[[Lacan]] finds a solution to the problem at the end of 1957, when he proposes the idea that it is the [[Name-of-the-Father]] (-- a [[fundamental signifier]]) -- that is the [[object]] of [[foreclosure]].<ref>{{E}} p. 217</ref>
In this way [[Lacan]] is able to combine in one formula both of the themes that had previously dominated his thinking on the [[causality]] of [[psychosis]] (-- the [[absence]] of the [[father]] and the concept of ''[[foreclosure|Verwerfung]]'').
This formula remains at the heart of [[Lacan]]'s thinking on [[psychosis]] throughout the rest of his [[Work of Jacques Lacan|work]].
===Repression, Negation, Projection===
[[Foreclosure]] is to be distinguished from other operations such as [[repression]], [[negation]], and [[projection]].
[[Foreclosure]] differs from [[repression]] in that the [[foreclosed]] [[signifier|element]] is not buried in the [[unconscious]] but expelled from the [[unconscious]].
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Absence]]
* [[Castration]]
* [[Cause]]
* [[Defence]]
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* [[Delusion]]
* [[Dual relation]]
* [[Existence]]
* [[Negation]]
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* [[Projection]]
* [[Repression]]
* [[Signifier]]
* [[Speech]]
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* [[Structure]]
* [[Subject]]
* [[Symbolic]]
* [[Psychosis]]
{{Also}}
==References==
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[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Terms]]
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