Psychosis

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Psychotic Phenomena

In Lacanian psychoanalysis, it is important to distinguish between psychosis -- which is a clinical structure -- psychotic phenomena -- such as delusions and hallucinations.

Two conditions are required for psychotic phenomena to emerge:

  1. the subject must have a psychotic structure, and
  2. the Name-of-the-Father must be "called into symbolic opposition to the subject."[1]
    1. Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1977. p.217