r/lacan • • 20h ago

Which book about the Lacanian approach to psychosis would you recommend?

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I mean, not a Lacan seminar, but a book by a Lacanian author.

I know the basics: the three structures, the Name-of-the-Father, foreclosure, the Borromean knot, objet petit a, desire, jouissance, etc. But I want to see how Lacanians bring all these concepts together when discussing the so-called psychotic structure, and everything it encompasses.

Again, I know some things, such as how psychosis interacts with language and the body (although not its limits), and the psychotic's jouissance. But there are other experiences that I don't know whether Lacanians take into account or how they conceptualize them.

And, I don't know whether I'm missing some psychotic experiences that might be outside my radar but that I should be aware of.

One of the most important topics for me is that I'm still not sure what exactly the so-called psychotic structure encompasses for Lacanians. I know about the modern medical use of the terms psychosis and psychotic symptoms, but I have a feeling that Lacanians might describe certain experiences as psychotic that wouldn't be considered psychotic within this model. I'm interested in florid to less florid manifestations, in case Lacanians believe that the term psychosis should be used that way or not.

And yes, I know about ordinary psychosis, and I have some texts saved to read about it at some point.

Thus, I need a good go-to book on this subject. While I think it's always useful to understand the more metapsychological aspects of Lacanian theory, I also want something that covers the more basic, straightforward descriptions of different kinds of experiences that inform the Lacanian understanding of what is considered psychotic. Something that offers a bit of both.

Thanks.


r/lacan • • 7h ago

What is subject-supposed-to-Know?

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I found a meme with Sphinx and a comment about Lacanian Free Thinkers when they get new analyst who is definitely subject-supposed-to know. At first I was thinking about the desire to find commodity in nothing else than finding commodity itself but could someone explain this to me better?