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The ==Sigmund Freud=====Mental Disorder==="[[Neurosis]]" is originally a [[psychiatric]] term which came to denote, in the eighteenth-century, a [[whole]] range of [[treatment|nervous disorders]] defined by a wide variety of [[symptom]]s. [[Freud]] uses the term in a [[number]] of ways, sometimes as a general term 'for all [[treatment|mental disorders]] in [[Works of Sigmund Freud|his early work]], and sometimes to denote a specific [[class]] of [[neurosistreatment|mental disorders]]' (''i.e. in opposiiton to [[névrosepsychosis]]'') . It is used a pathological [[mental]] condition in which there are no observable lesions in the neuropsychological [[psychoanalysissystem]]. The [[patient]] is normally aware of the morbidity of his or her condition and a neurosis can, unlike a psychosis, be treated with the patient's consent. Neurosis is normally [[understood]] to describe as a number condition such as hysteria in which somatic [[symptoms]] are an expression of nervous disordersa [[psychical]] [[conflict]] originating in [[childhood]]. Modern [[psychoanalysis]] describes [[patients]] presenting obsessional, [[phobic]] or [[hysterical]] symptoms as neurotic.

For ===Neurosis and Normality===[[Lacan]], the term '[[neurosisFreud]]' refers not to bases this distinction purely on a set of quantitative factors (behavioral or psychosomatic) "[[symptomspsychoanalytic]] research finds no fundamental but to a particular only quantitative distinction between normal and neurotic [[clinical structurelife]]. "<ref>{{F}} ''[[LacanThe Interpretation of Dreams]] identifies three '', 1990a: [[clinical structureSE]]sV: * 373</ref>) which is not a [[neurosisstructural]], * distinction. In [[psychosisstructural]] and* [[perversionterms]]. ==Psychoanalytic Treatment== , therefore, there is no distinction between the "normal" [[Freudsubject]] argued that [[neurosis]] was an illness that could be and the [[cureneurotic]]d.

===Psychosis and Perversion===This [[LacanLacanian]] nosology [[identifies]] [[three]] [[clinical structures]]: [[neurosis]], [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]], 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 [[structure]], in the [[sense]] argues of that 'which is found in the statistical majority of the population, is [[neurosis]], and "mental health' " is an [[illusory idea ]] [[ideal]] of [[split|wholeness ]] which can never be attained because the [[subject]] is essentially [[split]]. Thus whereas [[Freud]] sees [[neurosis]] as an [[illness]] that can be [[cure]]d, [[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-à-vis'' the [[neurosis]].

The [[aim]] of [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is not the eradication of the [[neurosis]] but the modification of the [[subject]]'s position ''vis-a-vis'' the [[neurosis]]. ==The Question=Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis===

<blockquote>"[[Neurosis]] "is a question that [[being ]] poses for the subject."<ref>{{E}} p.168</ref> The two forms of [[neurosis]] ([[hysteria]] and [[obsessional neurosis]]) are distinguished by the content of the question.</blockquote>

The two forms of [[neurosis]] -- [[hysteria]] and [[obsessional neurosis]] -- are distinguished by the [[content]] of the question. The question of the [[hysteria|hysteric]] ('"[[hysteria|Am I a [[man]] or a [[woman?]]?'") relates to one's [[sex]], whereas the question of the [[obsessional neurosis]] ('"[[obsessional neurosis|To be or not to be?']]") relates to the [[time|contingency ]] of one's own [[existence]]. These two questions (the [[hysteria|hysterical]] question [[about]] [[sexuality|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>

These two questions (the ===Phobia===At [[times]] [[hysteria|hystericalLacan]] question about lists [[sexual identityphobia]], and the as a [[obsessional neurosis|obsessional]] question about alongside [[deathhysteria]]/and [[existenceobsessional neurosis]]) ", thus raising the question of whether there are as it happens the not two ultimate questions that have precisely no solution in the signifier. This is what gives neurotics their existential valuesbut three forms of [[neurosis]].<ref>{{S3E}} p.190168</ref>

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