Psychogenesis of Madness
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.154
Presentation on Psychical Causality > /. *Critique of an Organicist Theory of Madness, Henri Ey's Organo-Dynamism* > *2. The Essential Causality of Madness*
Theoretical move: Lacan argues that madness must be understood as a phenomenon of meaning and signification—not organic deficit or error—by grounding its essential causality in the structure of language, misrecognition, and the subject's relation to truth, thereby positioning psychoanalytic psychopathology as irreducibly tied to the problem of language for man.
I think that he has done more than anyone else to support the hypothesis of the psychogenesis of madness