De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité (Points essais)

by Jacques Lacan

Thèse publiée non sans réticence.

A prétexter que l'enseignement passe par le détour de midire la vérité.

Y ajoutant : à condition que l'erreur rectifiée, ceci démontre le nécessaire de son détour.

Que ce texte ne l'impose pas, justifierait la réticence.

J.L.


De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité constituait la thèse de doctorat en médecine de Jacques Lacan, éditée une première fois en octobre 1932.

Genres: Psychology

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1932

About the author

Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. His yearly seminars, conducted in Paris from 1953 until his death in 1981, were a major influence in the French intellectual milieu of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly among post-structuralist thinkers.

Lacan's ideas centered on Freudian concepts such as the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego, focusing on identifications, and the centrality of language to subjectivity. His work was interdisciplinary, drawing on linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, amongst others. Although a controversial and divisive figure, Lacan is widely read in critical theory, literary studies, and twentieth-century French philosophy, as well as in the living practice of clinical psychoanalysis.

Reviews

[Maitê · Rating 4 out of 5]

This serves both as a wonderful introduction to Lacan's work and a historical study of the slow evolution of psychiatrical knowledge, and more specifically, how we understand psychosis. It's not something one will pick up as a light read, the language and the subject matter requires a lot of focus and previous knowledge to be able to follow up with his dissertation. The main case he based his work on is a very interest study of paranoid psychosis that I'm interested in learning more about.

[fouch6 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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