Organicist Theory of Madness
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.141
Presentation on Psychical Causality > /. *Critique of an Organicist Theory of Madness, Henri Ey's Organo-Dynamism*
Theoretical move: Lacan mounts a foundational critique of Henri Ey's organo-dynamism by arguing that, despite its dynamist enrichments, it remains confined within a Cartesian-materialist determinism (extended substance) that cannot account for the specific originality of madness as a phenomenon tied to truth and signification—a gap no "energetic" or "structural" description of dissolution can bridge.
a doctrine of mental problems that I consider incomplete and false, a doctrine which, in psychiatry, is known as 'organicism.'