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The term '[[foreclosure]]' ([[French]]: ''[[forclusion]]'', [[German]]: ''[[Verwerfung]]'')
is introduced by [[Jacques Lacan]] to describe the [[psychical]] [[mechanism]] that triggers [[psychosis]].
[[Foreclosure does not act on ]] is a signifier that is already inscribed within the chain of signifiers.Foreclosure ([[psychical]]) [[mechanism]] which rejects the inscription of the [[signifier ]] within the [[chain ]] of signifiers. Foreclosure is thus antithetical to <i>Bejahung</i> (affirmation)[[signifier]]s.
[[Foreclosure]] is a [[psychical]] [[mechanism]] which expels the primordial [[signifier]] (the [[phallus]] or the [[Name-of-the-Father]]) from the [[symbolic]] [[order]].
"I will thus take <i>Verwerfung</i> to be [[foreclosure]] of the [[signifier]]. At the point at which the [[Name-of-the-Father]] is summoned—and we shall see how—a pure and simple hole may answer in the [[Other]]; due to the [[lack]] of the [[metaphor]]ic effect, this [[hole]] will give rise to a corresponding [[hole]] in the place of [[phallic]] [[signification]]."<ref>[[Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Écrits]]''. "On a Question Prior to any Possible Treatment of Psychosis." p.191</ref>
==Hallucinations==
The [[subject ]] calls upon the [[Father ]] to guarantee the [[law ]] that situates both the [[subject ]] and his [[desire ]] in the [[Other]], but encounter encounters only a [[void]].
The [[foreclosure]] of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] gives rise to the [[fantasmatic]] presence (present in the [[Real]]) of a malevolent [[authority]], suspected of having intrusive or criminal intentions[[intention]]s, desiring to commit sexual abuse or homicide.
Unlike a [[repressed]] [[signifier]], a [[foreclosed]] [[signifier]] is not absorbed into the [[unconscious]] and therefore does not reappear in the [[psyche]] in the form of a [[neurotic]] [[symptom]].
Why does foreclosure come about?
It may also happen that the real father reveals himself to be incapable of inscribing himself into a symbolic line-age, and consequently invalidates it (cf. Schreber's father in "Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia [Dementia Paranoides]," 1911c).
==Miscellaneous==
Foreclosure is thus antithetical to <i>Bejahung</i> (affirmation).
==See Also==
