The psychoses: the seminar of jacques lacan

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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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Autor: Jacques-Alain Miller

Autor

JACQUES-ALAIN MILLER

Jacques-Alain Miller é psicanalista e dirige o Departamento de Psicanálise da Universidade de Paris VIII. Fundou a Associação Mundial de Psicanálise (AMP) e foi seu primeiro delegado-geral. Nomeado herdeiro moral pelo próprio Lacan, é responsável pelo estabelecimento do texto de seus Seminários. Dirige — ao lado de sua mulher Judith, filha de Lacan — a coleção Campo Freudiano, na França e no Brasil. Além deste livro, tem publicados: Perspectivas dos Escritos e Outros escritos de Lacan (2011); Perspectivas do Seminário 23 de Lacan: O sinthoma (2010); Lacan elucidado (1997); Matemas I (1996); e Percurso de Lacan (1987).