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"[[psychosis]]" ([[Fr]. ''[[psychose]]'')
==Sigmund Freud==
The term [[psychosis]] arose in [[psychiatry]] in the nineteenth century as a way of designating mental illness in general.
During [[Freud]]'s life, a basic distinction between [[psychosis]] and [[neurosis]] came to be generally accepted, according to which [[psychosis]] designated extreme forms of mental illness and [[neurosis]] denoted less serious disorders.
This basic distinction between [[neurosis]] and [[psychosis]] was taken up and developed by [[Freud]] himself in several papers.<ref>Freud, 1924b and 1924e</ref>
==Jacques Lacan==
