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| − | [[Psychosis]] (psychose)
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| − | The term [[Psychosis]] arose in psychiatry in the
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| − | nineteenth century as a way of designating mental illness in general. During
| + | A mental condition whereby the patient completely loses touch with reality. |
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| − | Freud's life, a basic distinction between [[Psychosis]] and NEUROSIs came to be
| + | ==Psychosis versus Neurosis== |
| | + | The term '[[psychosis]]' denotes an severe form of [[pathology|mental illness]], while '[[neurosis]]' denotes less severe forms. |
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| − | generally accepted, according to which [[Psychosis]] designated extreme forms of
| + | [[Sigmund Freud]] elaborated a distinction between [[psychosis]] and [[neurosis]].<ref>Freud, 1924b and 1924e</ref> |
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| − | mental illness and neurosis denoted less serious disorders. This basic distinc-
| + | <blockquote>"[In] neurosis the ego suppresses part of the id out of allegiance to reality, whereas in psychosis it lets itself be carried away by the id and detached from a part of reality."<ref>5.202</ref></blockquote> |
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| − | tion between neurosis and [[Psychosis]] was taken up and developed by Freud
| + | ==Psychosis and Lacan== |
| | + | [[Jacques Lacan]] studied [[psychosis]] for his doctoral research about a [[woman]] he calls "[[Aimee]]."<ref>Lacan, 1932</ref> |
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| − | himself in several papers (e.g. Freud, 1924b and 1924e).
| + | It is common to compare Lacan's style of writing and speaking to the discourse of psychotic patients. |
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| − | Lacan's interest in [[Psychosis]] predates his interest in psychoanalysis. Indeed
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| − | it was his doctoral research, which concerned a psychotic [[Woman]] whom Lacan
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| − | calls 'AimÈe', that first led Lacan to psychoanalytic theory (see Lacan, 1932).
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| − | It has often been remarked that Lacan's debt to this patient is reminiscent of
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| − | Freud's debt to his first neurotic patients (who were also female). In other
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| − | words, whereas Freud's first approach to the unconscious is by way of
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| − | neurosis, Lacan's first approach is via [[Psychosis]]. It has also been common
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| − | to compare Lacan's tortured and at times almost incomprehensible style of
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| − | writing and speaking to the discourse of psychotic patients. Whatever one | |
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| − | are stabilized in the delusional metaphor' (E, 217). Another way of describing
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| − | this is as 'a relationship between the subject and the signifier in its most formal
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| − | dimension, in its dimension as a pure signifier' (S3, 250). This relationship of
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| − | the subject to the signifier in its purely formal aspect constitutes 'the nucleus of
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| − | [[Psychosis]]' (S3, 250). 'If the neurotic inhabits language, the psychotic is
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| − | inhabited, possessed, by language' (S3, 250).
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| − | Of all the various forms of [[Psychosis]], it iS [[Paranoia]] that most interests
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| − | Lacan, while schizophrenia and manic-depressive [[Psychosis]] are rarely dis-
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| − | cussed (see S3, 3-4). Lacan follows Freud in maintaining a structural distinc-
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| − | tion between paranoia and schizophrenia.
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| − | == def ==
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| − | A mental condition whereby the patient completely loses touch with reality. Freud originally distinguished between neurosis and psychosis in the following way: “in neurosis the ego suppresses part of the id out of allegiance to reality, whereas in psychosis it lets itself be carried away by the id and detached from a part of reality” (5.202).
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| | + | [[Psychosis]] has many different forms: [[paranoia]], [[schizophrenia]], and [[manic-depression]].<ref>S3, 3-4</ref> |
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A mental condition whereby the patient completely loses touch with reality.
Psychosis versus Neurosis
The term 'psychosis' denotes an severe form of mental illness, while 'neurosis' denotes less severe forms.
Sigmund Freud elaborated a distinction between psychosis and neurosis.[1]
"[In] neurosis the ego suppresses part of the id out of allegiance to reality, whereas in psychosis it lets itself be carried away by the id and detached from a part of reality."[2]
Psychosis and Lacan
Jacques Lacan studied psychosis for his doctoral research about a woman he calls "Aimee."[3]
It is common to compare Lacan's style of writing and speaking to the discourse of psychotic patients.
Psychosis has many different forms: paranoia, schizophrenia, and manic-depression.[4]
References
- ↑ Freud, 1924b and 1924e
- ↑ 5.202
- ↑ Lacan, 1932
- ↑ S3, 3-4
