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Foreclosure and the Oedipus complex
=====Foreclosure and the Oedipus complex=====
 
[[Lacan]] draws on [[Freud]]'s remarks on the case of Daniel Paul Schreber, an appeal court judge who wrote an autobiographical account of his paranoid delusions, to elaborate the thesis that psychosis is triggered by the specific mechanism of [[foreclosure]].
 
A key [[signifier]] such as the phallus or the name-of-the-father is expelled or foreclosed froom the subject's symbolic world, and a hole is left in its place.
 
the foreclosed signifier is not integrated into the unconscious thanks to an act of repression, and therefore cannot return in the form of a neuortic signifier.
 
it sreturns, rather, in the real, usually in the form of persecutory hallucinations and delusions.
 
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Unlike a patient suffering from a neurosis, the psychotic is not usually aware of the morbidity of his or her conditions, cnanot bettreated on a consensual absis and may therefore ahve to be committed to a psychiatric intitution.
 
 
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[[Lacan]]'s most detailed discussion of [[psychosis]] appears in his [[seminar]] of 1955-6, entitled simply ''[[Seminar III|The Psychoses]]''.
It is here that he expounds what come to be the main tents of the [[Lacan]]ian approach to [[madness]].
[[Psychosis]] is defined as one of the three [[clinical structure]]s, one of which is defined by the operation of [[foreclosure]].
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