Suicidal Aggression of Narcissism
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.160
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 advances a structural account of madness as essential misrecognition (méconnaissance), arguing—via the Aimée case, Hegel's phenomenology, and Molière's Alceste—that the madman fails to recognize in the "havoc of the world" the very manifestation of his own being, and is caught in an infatuated, unmediated identification with an ideal that is simultaneously his freedom and his trap; this is opposed to organicist conceptions that reduce the delusional act to a contingent loss of control.
the mainspring of his twists and turns, it lies in a mechanism that I would relate not to the self-punishment but rather to the suicidal aggression of narcissism