
Psychoses
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 distin...
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 distin...