Social Psychosis
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.497
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.
with a belief that unites men, half the universe at least, under the symbol of Father Christmas (which no one can overlook)—would stop me from situating him, by legitimate analogy, in the category of social psychosis which, if I am not mistaken, Pascal established before me.