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Psychoanalysis After The Fact
- Lacan treats psychosis as a structural clinical problem psychoanalysis can address after it appears rather than a question of origin.
- He asks how psychoanalysis should intervene when symbolic bonds fail rather than where psychosis comes from.
Foreclosure Versus Repression
- Lacan contrasts foreclosure with repression: psychosis forecloses the paternal signifier rather than repressing contents.
- This foreclosure breaks the subject's relation to the symbolic and produces an imaginary takeover.
Host's Personal Psychosis Story
- Ryan recounts his own psychotic episode to illustrate how the subject can be scandalized by symbolic fraudulence.
- He felt the symbolic surface was fraudulent and could not participate in normal symbolic exchanges.