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===Psychosis and the ImaginarySymbolic Order===

Lacan rejects the approach of those who limit their analysis of psychosis to the imaginary order; <blockquote>"nothing Nothing is to be expected from the way [[psychosis ]] is explored at the level of the [[imaginary]], since the [[imaginary ]] mechanism is what gives [[psychotic ]] [[alienation ]] its form, but not its dynamics."<ref>{{S3}} p.146</ref></blockquote>

It is only by focusing on the [[symbolic order ]] that [[Lacan ]] is able to point to the fundamental determining element of [[psychosis]], namely ,the hole in the [[symbolic ]] [[order ]] caused by [[foreclosure ]] and the consequent "imprisonment" of the [[psychotic ]] [[subject ]] in the imaginary. It is also this emphasis on the symbolic order which leads Lacan to value above all the linguistic phenomena in [[psychosisimaginary]]: "the importance given to language phenomena in psychosis is for us the msot fruitful lesson of all."<ref>{{S3}} p.144</ref>