Delusional Metaphor
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.498
The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956 > On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis > *V, Postscript*
Theoretical move: Lacan consolidates his structural account of psychosis around the foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father, showing how its absence triggers a cascade from signifier to delusional metaphor, while simultaneously critiquing empiricist/biographical approaches (exemplified by Niederland on Schreber) for failing to grasp the distinction between subject and signifier that alone makes the paternal function theoretically legible.
a cascade of reworkings of the signifier from which the growing disaster of the imaginary proceeds, until the level is reached at which signifier and signified stabilize in a delusional metaphor.