Percipiens
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.471
The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956 > On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis > 77. *After Freud*
Theoretical move: Lacan indicts post-Freudian ego-psychology for reducing psychosis to a naïve inside/outside projection schema and a "loss of reality" framework, arguing that only a rigorous engagement with Freud's symbolic articulation—the Oedipus complex, the castration complex, and the structural logic of the drive—can ground a genuine differential diagnosis between neurosis and psychosis; the passage also diagnoses Macalpine's partial insight and ultimate failure as emblematic of what happens when the symbolic is sacrificed to imaginary dynamics.
it is nevertheless as an ego—that is, as the same inexhaustible percipiens—that he is invoked in explaining psychosis. This percipiens has total power over its no less unchanged correlate, reality.