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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.
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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
in...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Translator’s note
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to the Question of the Psychoses
- Thematics and Structure of the Psychotic Phenomenon
- On the Signifier and the Signified
- The Environs of the Hole
- Bibliography
- Index