The Origin of Psychosis According to Lacan

Lacan: One of Lacan's motivating efforts throughout his career is to try and find the origin of psychosis. Here's what he comes up with as an answer. He says there's a primordial symbolic moment in which you accept prohibitions that the paternal figure, whatever that is, brings into your life. If that doesn't happen or if it happens and then you deny that it occurred, a process that Lacan terms foreclosure, the result is psychosis according to Lacan. Usually the psychotic can be determined According to Lacan by different types of linguistic disturbances.