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nineteenth century as a way of designating A mental illness in generalcondition whereby the patient completely loses touch with reality. During

Freud==Psychosis versus Neurosis==The term 's life[[psychosis]]' denotes an severe form of [[pathology|mental illness]], a basic distinction between while '[[Psychosisneurosis]] and NEUROSIs came to be' denotes less severe forms.

generally accepted, according to which [[PsychosisSigmund Freud]] elaborated a distinction between [[psychosis]] and [[neurosis]] designated extreme forms of.<ref>Freud, 1924b and 1924e</ref>

mental illness <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 neurosis denoted less serious disordersdetached from a part of reality."<ref>5. This basic distinc-202</ref></blockquote>

tion between neurosis ==Psychosis and Lacan==[[Jacques Lacan]] studied [[psychosis]] for his doctoral research about a [Psychosis[woman]] he calls "[[Aimee]] was taken up and developed by Freud."<ref>Lacan, 1932</ref>

himself in several papers (e.g. Freud, 1924b and 1924e).  Lacan's interest in [[Psychosis]] predates his interest in psychoanalysis. Indeed  it was his doctoral research, which concerned a psychotic [[Woman]] whom Lacan calls 'AimÈe', that first led Lacan to psychoanalytic theory (see Lacan, 1932).  It has often been remarked that Lacan's debt to this patient is reminiscent of  Freud's debt to his first neurotic patients (who were also female). In other words, whereas Freud's first approach to the unconscious is by way of neurosis, Lacan's first approach is via [[Psychosis]]. It has also been common  to compare Lacan's tortured and at times almost incomprehensible style of writing and speaking to the discourse of psychotic patients. Whatever one     are stabilized in the delusional metaphor' (E, 217). Another way of describing this is as 'a relationship between the subject and the signifier in its most formal dimension, in its dimension as a pure signifier' (S3, 250). This relationship of the subject to the signifier in its purely formal aspect constitutes 'the nucleus of [[Psychosis]]' (S3, 250). 'If the neurotic inhabits language, the psychotic is inhabited, possessed, by language' (S3, 250).  Of all the various forms of [[Psychosis]], it iS [[Paranoia]] that most interests Lacan, while schizophrenia and manic-depressive [[Psychosis]] are rarely dis- cussed (see S3, 3-4). Lacan follows Freud in maintaining a structural distinc- tion between paranoia and schizophrenia.  == def ==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).