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Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Psychoses, 1955-56 Bk.3

By Jacques Lacan

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
0415101832, 9780415101837, 0393034674, 9780393034677
LCC
BF173 .L14613 1988 bk. 3,RC512 .L14613 1988 b
Open Library ID
OL1724661M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13720007 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
350\350
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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