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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]].
=====EditParanoia=====In [[{{Y}}|1932, [[Lacan]] completed his [[doctoral thesis]] on [[paranoia]], ''[[Paranoid Psychosis and its Relation to the Personality]]'', a study which had a great influence on many of the [[Surrealists]].<!-- Salvidor Dali referred to Lacan's work in the first issue of the surrealist review, Minotaure, in 1933. Lacan often contributed to Minotaure. Paul Eluard championed the poetry of the patient, Aimée, that Lacan described in his 1932 thesis. -->
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