A Comprehensive Introduction to Lacan's Theories of Psychosis

摘要

Vanheule's (2011) book The subject of psychosis: a Lacanian perspective provides a comprehensive introduction to Jacques Lacan's major theoretical contributions to psychosis. Lacan's theoretical engagement with psychosis constitutes a central platform for his ventures into psychoanalysis; from his doctoral thesis on paranoia in the 1930s through to his seminar on Joyce in the 1970s, the question concerning the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis was at the forefront of his clinical work. In fact, Vanheule's central claim is that Lacan elaborated four distinct theories of psychosis over the course of his teaching.