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The term "[[neurosis]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[névrose]]'') is originally a [[psychiatric]] term which came to denote, in the eighteen-century, a whole range of nervous disorders defined by a wide variety of [[symptom]]s.
This use of the term to designate a [[Lacanstructure]] identifies three problematizes [[clinical structureFreud]]'s: * distinction between [[neurosis]], * [[psychosis]] and* [[perversion]]normality.
In [[Freudstructural]] argued that terms, therefore, there is no distinction between the normal [[neurosissubject]] was an illness that could be and the [[cureneurotic]]d.
This [[LacanLacanian]] argues that 'mental health' is an illusory idea of wholeness which can never be attained because the nosology identifies three [[clinical structures]]: [[neurosis]], [[subjectpsychosis]] is essentially and [[splitperversion]], in which there is no position of "mental health" which could be called normal.<ref>{{S8}} p.374-5; {{E}} p.163</ref>
The normal [[aimstructure]] , in the sense of that which is found in the statistical majority of the population, is [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyticneurosis]], and "mental health" is an illusory ideal of wholeness which can never be attained because the [[subject]] is essentially [[split]]. THus whereas [[Freud]] sees [[neurosis]] as an illness that can be cured, [[Lacan]] sees [[neurosis]] as a [[structure]] that cannot be altered. The aim of [[psychoanalytic treatment]] is therefore not the eradication of the [[neurosis]] but the modification of the [[subject]]'s position ''vis-aà-vis'' the [[neurosis]]. --
According to [[Lacan]], "the structure of a neurosis is essentially a question."<ref>{{S3}} p.174</ref>
The two forms of [[neurosis]] ([[hysteria]] and [[obsessional neurosis]]) are distinguished by the content of the question.
The question of the [[hysteria|hysteric]] ('"Am I a [[man]] or a [[woman]]?'") relates to one's [[sex]], whereas the question of the [[obsessional neurosis]] ('"To be or not to be?'") relates to the contingency of one's own [[existence]]. These two questions (the hysterical question about sexual identity, and the obsessional question about death/existence) "are as it happens the two ultimate questions that have precisely no solution in the signifier. This is what gives neurotics this existential value."<ref>{{S3}} p.190</ref>> --
==See Also==
* [[Hysteria]]
* [[Obsessional neurosis]]
* [[phobiaPhobia]]* [[structureStructure]]* [[symptomSymptom]]
==References==
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[[Category:NeurosisDictionary]]
[[Category:Treatment]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]