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=====Psychosis=====
'''[[Psychosis]]'' is one of [[three ]] '''[[structure|clinical structures]]'''. The other two are '''[[neurosis]]''' and ''[[perversion]]''. Each [[structure]] is distinguished by a different operation: [[neurosis]] by the operation of [[repression]], [[perversion]] by the operation of [[disavowal]], and [[psychosis]] by the operation of '''[[foreclosure]]'''. By way of [[foreclosure]] of the [[signifier]] of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] it is possible to [[understand ]] [[psychosis]] and distinguish it from [[neurosis]].
=====Foreclosure=====
'''[[Foreclosure]]''' corresponds to [[Lacan]]'s [[translation ]] of ''[[Verwerfung]]'' ([[repudiaton]]). The [[Name-of-the-Father]] is not integrated in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] of the [[psychotic]], it is [[foreclosed]]: a [[hole]] is [[left ]] in the [[symbolic]] [[chain]]. In [[psychosis]] "the unconscious is [[present ]] but not functioning." The [[psychotic]] [[structure]] results from a malfunction of the [[Oedipus complex]], a [[lack]] in the [[paternal function]]: the [[paternal function]] is reduced to the [[image]] of the [[father]] (the [[symbolic]] reduced to the [[imaginary]]).
== Symbolic Order ==
Two [[conditions ]] are required for [[psychosis]] to emerge:
# the [[subject]] has a [[psychotic]] [[structure]] (inheritance) and
# the [[Name-of-the-Father]] is called into [[symbolic]] opposition to the [[subject]].
When both conditions are fulfilled, [[psychosis]] is actualized; the [[latent ]] [[psychosis]] becomes [[manifest ]] in [[hallucinations]] and/or [[delusions]]. For [[Lacan]] [[psychosis]] includes [[paranoia]] (Papin sisters), so he bases his arguments on the [[Schreber case]] (as related by [[Freud]]). He argues that [[Schreber]]'s [[psychosis]] was activated by both his failure to produce a [[child]] and his election to an important [[position ]] in the judiciary. These experiences confronted him with the question of [[paternity ]] in the [[real]]- called the [[Name-of-the-Father]] into [[symbolic]] opposition with the [[subject]]. The [[Name of the Father]] is the [[fundamental signifier]] which permits [[signification]] to proceed normally. It both confers [[identity]] on the [[subject]] (naming and positioning it within the [[symbolic]] [[order]]) and signifies the Oedipical [[prohibition]]. When [[foreclosed]], it is not included in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. [[Lacan]] rejects the approach of limiting the [[analysis]] of [[psychosis]] to the [[imaginary]]: "[[nothing ]] is to be expected from the way psychosis is explored at the level of [[the imaginary]], since the imaginary [[mechanism ]] is what gives psychotic [[alienation ]] its [[form]], but not its dynamics." Only by focusing on the [[symbolic]] are we able to point to the fundamental determining element of [[psychosis]]: the [[hole]] in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] caused by [[foreclosure]] and the consequent imprisonment of the [[psychotic]] [[subject]] in the [[imaginary]]. "The importance given to language phenomena in psychosis is for us the most fruitful lesson of all."
== Point de Caption ==
The [[Saussurian]] opposition between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] leads to the radical [[separation ]] of the two [[chain]]s, until they are tied through anchoring points, ''[[points de caption]]''. These are points at which "signifier and signified are knotted together." Despite the continual [[slip]]page of the [[signified]] under the [[signifier]], there are nevertheless in the [[neurotic]] [[subject]] certain points of attachment between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] where the [[slip]]page is temporarily halted. A certain [[number ]] of these points "are necessary for a person to be called normal" and "when they are not established or when they give way" the result is [[psychosis]]. In the psychotic [[experience ]] "the signifier and the signified present themselves in a completely [[divided ]] form."
== Language ==
Thus the phenomena most notable in [[psychosis]] are disorders of [[language]]: the [[presence ]] of such disorders is a necessary condition for its diagnosis: holophrases and the extensive use of neologisms (new [[words ]] or already existing ones which the [[psychotic]] redefines). These language disorders are due to the [[psychotic]]'s [[lack]] of a sufficient number of anchoring points: the psychotic experience is characterized by a constant [[slip]]page of the [[signifier]] under the [[signified]], which is a disaster for [[signification]]. Later, [[Lacan]] will posit that there is a continual "cascade of reshapings of the signifier from which the increasing disaster of the imaginary proceeds, until the level is reached at which signifier and signified are stabilized in the delusional metaphor." Thus "the nucleus of psychosis has to be linked to a rapport between the subject and the signifier in its most [[formal ]] [[dimension]], in its dimension as pure signifier. If the neurotic inhabits language, the psychotic is inhabited, possessed by language." "On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis" (‘’Écrits‘’[[Écrits]]: A Selection’’) is a [[text ]] written in 1958 and contemporary with ‘’Les [[formations ]] de l'inconscient’’; it is a [[synthesis ]] of ‘’Les psychoses’’ and focuses mainly on the term [[foreclosure]], ‘’forclusion’’, [[German ]] ‘’Verwerfung’’. In the [[Schema L]] "...the condition of the subject S (neurosis or psychosis) is dependent on what is [[being ]] unfolded in the Other O. What is being unfolded is articulated like a [[discourse ]] ([[the unconscious is the discourse of the Other]])."
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In the [[Schema ]] R: "...I as the ego-[[ideal]], M as the signifier of the primordial [[object]], and F as the position in O of the [[Name]]-of-the-Father. One can see how the homological fastening of the signification of S under the signifier of the phallus may [[affect ]] the support of the field of reality delimited by the quadrangle MieI. The two other summits, e and i, [[represent ]] the two imaginary [[terms ]] of the [[narcissistic ]] rapport, the ego and the [[specular ]] image."
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This schema articulates the [[imaginary]] [[triad ]] with the [[symbolic]] triad, both of which cut the quadrangle of [[reality]]. The term '[[reality]]' is ambiguous in that it designates both our rapport to the [[world ]] and our rapport to the [[Real]] as inaccessible. [[Schema R]] is elaborated in terms of a [[particular ]] form of [[psychosis]] ([[Schreber]]). Later, ‘’[[Kant avec Sade]]’’ (1962) will develop the [[perverse]] version as [[Lacan]] is concerned with creating the formal bases for his [[theory ]] before addressing the problems of the [[treatment]] of [[psychosis]]. The preliminary question seems to be the one of the [[Other]], whose presence commands everything else. It is the [[place ]] from which the [[subject]] is confronted with the question of its [[existence]] ([[sexuation]] and [[death]]). What is the [[Other]]? Is it the [[unconscious]] where "it speaks?" Is it the place of [[memory]] that conditions the indestructibility of certain [[desire]]s? Is it the place where the [[signifier]] of [[signifier]]s is the [[phallus]]? Is it the place [[symbolize]]d by the [[Name-of-the-Father]] since the [[Oedipus complex]] is consubstantial with the [[unconscious]]? When the [[paternal metaphor]] does not allow the [[subject]] to evoke the [[signification]] of the [[phallus]], when the response to the call of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] is a [[lack]] of the [[signifier]] itself, then it is a [[case ]] of [[psychosis]]. "This applies to the metaphor of the Name-of-the-Father, that is, the metaphor that puts this Name in the place that was first [[symbolized ]] by the operation of the [[mother]]'s [[absence]]." It designates the [[metaphor]]ical, [[substitutive]], [[character ]] of the [[Oedipus complex]].
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