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==Sigmund Freud===Definition========Early Lacan==Psychiatry==========Mental Illness=====The term "[[psychosis]] " arose in '''[[psychiatry]] ''' in the nineteenth century as a way of designating '''[[treatment|mental illness]] ''' in general.

=====Sigmund Freud==========Psychosis and Neurosis=====During [[Freud]]'s life, a basic distinction between [[psychosis]] and '''[[neurosis]] ''' came to be generally accepted, according to which [[psychosis]] designated extreme forms of [[treatment|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>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Neurosis and Psychosis]],." 1924b. [[SE]] XIX. p.1924b: 149.</ref>

=====Jacques Lacan=====

Indeed it was his doctoral research, which concerned a [[psychotic ]] [[woman ]] whom [[Lacan]] calls [[Aimée]] that first led [[Lacan]] to [[psychoanalytic theory]].<ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité]],'' 1932. Paris: Seuil, 1975.[1932]</ref>

In other words, whereas [[Freud]]'s first approach to the [[unconscious]] is by way of [[neurosis]], [[Lacan]]'s tortured and at times almsot incomprehensible style of [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|writing ]] and [[speech|speaking ]] to the [[discourse]] of [[psychotic]] [[patient]]s.

Whatever one makes of such comparisons, it is clear that [[Lacan]]'s discussions of [[psychosis]] are among the most significant and original aspects of his [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]].

 =====Foreclosure and the Oedipus complex=====