The Psychoses

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, Jacques-Alain Miller

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781317761778
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

During the third year of his famous seminar, Jacques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis: 'Psychoanalysis should be the science of language inhabited by the subject. From the Freudian point of view man is the subject captured and tortured by language.' Since psychosis is a special but emblematic case of language entrapment, Lacan devotes much of this year to grappling with distinctions between the neuroses and the psychoses. As he compared the two, relationships, symmetries, and contrasts emerge that enable him to erect a structure for psychosis.
Freud's famous case of Daniel Paul Schreber is central to Lacan's analysis. In demonstrating the many ways that the psychotic is `inhabited, possessed by language', Lacan draws upon Schreber's own account of his psychosis and upon Freud's notes on this 'case of paranoia'. The analysis of language is both fascinating and enlightening.

Index

Abel, Karl, 108

Abraham, Karl, 20

acting out, 79–81

aggressiveness, 93–95, 205, 240–241, 314

in Schreber, 305

alienation, 40–42

in Freudian theory, 241

in psychosis, 204–205

allocutor

distinguished from you, 299

anal preoccupations in a case of hysteria, 171

analysis, see psychoanalysis

analyst, see psychoanalyst

analytic relation, see psychoanalytic relation

animal psychology and mirror stage, 93–96

Anna O., 103

aphasia, 219–221, 223–224

Apollinaire, Guillaume, L’Enchanteur pourrissant, 323

appeal, see interpellation

Aristotle, 14, 64–65, 174, 187, 307

and god, 287–288

Nicomachean Ethics, 235

“as if” mechanism, 192–193

Augustine, Saint, 32, 137

autoerotism, 147, 253

Balzac, Honoré de, Contes drolatiques, 316

behaviorism, 114

being, 137–139, 148–149, 300

Bejahung [judgment], 12, 46, 81–84

Benveniste, Emile, 27, 32, 108–109, 278, 281–282

Bergson, Henri, 111, 118, 236

between-I, 193–195

bisexuality, 83

Bleuler, Eugen, 4, 135

Blondel, Charles, 21–22

La Conscience morbide, 118

Boehme, Jakob, Signatura rerum, 184

Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 218

Breuer, Josef, 103

Buber, Martin, I and Thou, 273

call, see interpellation

Capgras, J., 17–18

castration

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