Psychosis

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"psychosis" ([[Fr]. psychose)

Sigmund Freud

The term psychosis arose in psychiatry in the nineteenth century as a way of designating mental illness in general.

During Freud's life, a basic distinction between psychosis and neurosis came to be generally accepted, according to which psychosis designated extreme forms of 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.[1]

Jacques Lacan

  1. Freud, 1924b and 1924e