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The term '[[neurosisFreud]]' uses the term in a number of ways, sometimes as a general term for all mental disorders in his early work, and sometimes to denote a specific class of mental disorders (''i.e. in opposiiton to [[névrosepsychosis]]'') is used in [[psychoanalysis]] to describe a number of nervous disorders.

For In [[Lacan]]'s work, the term '[[neurosis]]' always figures in opposition to [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]], and refers not to a set of (behavioral or psychosomatic) [[symptomssymptom]] s but to a particular [[clinical structure]].

This use of the term to designate a [[Lacanstructure]] identifies three problematizes [[clinical structureFreud]]'s: * distinction between [[neurosis]], * [[psychosis]] and* [[perversion]]normality.

In [[Freudstructural]] argued that terms, therefore, there is no distinction between the normal [[neurosissubject]] was an illness that could be and the [[cureneurotic]]d.

This [[LacanLacanian]] argues that 'mental health' is an illusory idea of wholeness which can never be attained because the nosology identifies three [[clinical structures]]: [[neurosis]], [[subjectpsychosis]] is essentially and [[splitperversion]], in which there is no position of "mental health" which could be called normal.<ref>{{S8}} p.374-5; {{E}} p.163</ref>

The normal [[aimstructure]] , in the sense of that which is found in the statistical majority of the population, is [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyticneurosis]], and "mental health" is an illusory ideal of wholeness which can never be attained because the [[subject]] is essentially [[split]]. THus whereas [[Freud]] sees [[neurosis]] as an illness that can be cured, [[Lacan]] sees [[neurosis]] as a [[structure]] that cannot be altered. The aim of [[psychoanalytic treatment]] is therefore not the eradication of the [[neurosis]] but the modification of the [[subject]]'s position ''vis-aà-vis'' the [[neurosis]]. --

The question of the [[hysteria|hysteric]] ('"Am I a [[man]] or a [[woman]]?'") relates to one's [[sex]], whereas the question of the [[obsessional neurosis]] ('"To be or not to be?'") relates to the contingency of one's own [[existence]]. These two questions (the hysterical question about sexual identity, and the obsessional question about death/existence) "are as it happens the two ultimate questions that have precisely no solution in the signifier. This is what gives neurotics this existential value."<ref>{{S3}} p.190</ref>> --

These two questions (the At times [[hysteria|hystericalLacan]] question about lists [[sexual identityphobia]], and the as a [[obsessional neurosis|obsessional]] question about alongside [[deathhysteria]]/and [[existenceobsessional neurosis]]) ", thus raising the question of whether there are as it happens the not two ultimate questions that have precisely no solution in the signifier. This is what gives neurotics their existential valuesbut three forms of [[neurosis]].<ref>{{S3E}} p.190168</ref>

* [[phobiaPhobia]]* [[structureStructure]]* [[symptomSymptom]]

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