FROM DE CLÉRAMBAULT’S THEORY OF MENTAL AUTOMATISM TO LACAN’S THEORY OF THE PSYCHOTIC STRUCTURE (original) (raw)
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The following essay proposes within the theoretical revision of Lacan's text "Paranoid psychosis in its relations with personality" framing the position of the French psychoanalyst regarding the disorder and elucidating some proposals on how to understand the condition and the importance of understanding it from a look that borders on philosophy, history and above all the contextual history of the patient presented in the text. It is necessary to consider the need to make a review since even with the time that precedes the text at the time of reading we realize how current the case can represent.
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'all politics rests on the fact that the entire world is only too happy to have someone who says "quick march!"-towards no matter what-Jacques Lacan, 'Geneva Lecture on the symptom' this new book, Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis, comes not a moment too soon. I say that because when I read the first essay I wished that I had already read it, already knew it. this essay is so timely and poignant in what it has to tell us about contemporary social discourses that it's already too late. What this shows us is how prescient and anticipatory Lacan was in 1969 in his thinking and speaking about psychoanalysis and its relations to (what we used to call) civilization. Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis brings together sixteen essays that are mostly all responses to Lacan's seventeenth seminar given in the academic year of 1969-70. this seminar is already published in french and has the title L'envers de la psychanalyse. seen from this distance, seminar XVII is especially significant in that it marks and predicts, quite alarmingly, the social changes that were only beginning at that time, and the effects upon the constitution of subjectivity that these discursive shifts will entail. seminar XVII, given a year after the student uprisings in Paris, is the seminar in which Lacan introduces his theory of the four discourses-the four discursive arrangements of jouissance that constitute our social bonds and our subjectivity (or lack of it). It is in this seminar that he says he wants to ask the question about the place of psychoanalysis in relation to politics. Lacan's thesis about this period of late capitalism is that brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk
The Lacanian Concept of Paranoia: An Historical Perspective
This article seeks to reopen a major question raised by the Lacanian nosology of the psychoses, by looking closely at Lacan's formulations of what he never ceased referring to as " paranoia ". While almost all classification systems of modern psychiatry, such as the ICD-10 and the DSM-5, have abandoned the specific category of paranoia, Lacan always viewed paranoia as a major category of " functional psychosis ". He held that paranoia was a qualitatively different disorder than schizophrenia, and considered it to be the principal or exemplary form of psychosis. Furthermore, in the middle period of his work, Lacan thought of paranoia in much broader terms than those of the definition proposed by Kraepelin, which he revisited, point by point, developing his theory of Freud's concept of " Verwerfung " or foreclosure; the latter became the focal diagnostic criterion in his nosographic construction. Lacan's privileging of and evolving theoretical views on paranoia provide a structural approach to what he called the " resistant nucleus " of psychosis; his work serves as a counterpoint to the more descriptive neo-Kraepelinian approach of contemporary psychiatric nosology.
CONCEPTUALIZING AND TREATING PSYCHOSIS: A LACANIAN PERSPECTIVE STIJN VANHEULE
Starting from the hypothesis that psychosis makes up a structure with a precise status for the unconscious, the author explores how, from a Lacanian point of view, the treatment of psychosis is organized. Special attention is paid to the specificity of the psychotic symptom and the way transference characteristically takes shape. It is indicated that the occurrence of psychotic symptoms bears witness to a subjective crisis, in which no signifiers provide support when, at the level of the unconscious, the subject is dealing with fundamental self-directed epistemic questions (‘who am I?’) and questions concerning the intentionality of the other (‘what do you want?’). Characteristically, such questions are organized around intimate topics like dealing with parenthood and authority; life in the light of death; sexuality in relation to love and procreation; and sexual identity. Psychotic crises are triggered upon confrontations with such issues in daily life, while no support by means of a master signifier or Name-of-the-Father can be found. Crucial to the Lacanian approach to treatment is that the psychoanalyst aims at restoring a place for the subject in relation to the Other, which is threatened in episodes of acute psychosis. Clinical material from Lacanian work with a female patient suffering from manic-depressive psychosis is discussed.