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<blockquote>"The importance given to language phenomena in psychosis is for us the msot fruitful lesson of all."<ref>{{S3}} p.144</ref></blockquote>
==Psychosis and Linguistic Phenomena==
The [[language|language phenomena]] most notable in [[psychosis]] are ''disorders'' of [[language]], and [[Lacan]] argues that the [[presence]] of such disorders is a necessary condition for a diagnosis of [[psychosis]].<ref>{{S3}} p.92</ref>
Among the [[psychotic]] [[language]] disorders which [[Lacan]] draws attention to are holophrases and the extensive use of neologisms (which may be completely new words coined by the [[psychotic]], or already existing words which the [[psychotic]] redefines).<ref>{{Ec}} p.167</ref>
In 1956, [[Lacan]] attributes these [[language]] disorders to the [[psychotic]]'s [[lack]] of a sufficient number of ''[[points de capiton]]''.
The [[lack]] of sufficient ''[[points de capiton]]'' means that the [[psychotic]] experience is characterized by a constant [[slip]]page of the [[signified]] under the signifier]], which is a disaster for [[signification]].
<blockquote>There is a continual "cascade of reshapings of the signifier fromw hich the increasing disaster of the imaginary proceeds, until the level is reached at which signifier and signified are stablized in the delusional metaphor."<ref>{E}} p.217</ref></blockquote>
Another way of describing this is as "a relationship between the subject and the signifier in its most formal dimension, in its dimension as a pure signifier."<ref>{{S3}} p.250</ref>
This relationship of the subject to the [[signifier]] in its purely formal aspect constitutes "the nucleus of [[psychosis]]."<ref>{{S3}} p.250</ref>
<blockquote>"If the neurotic inhabits language, the psychotic is inhabited, possessed, by language."<ref>{{S3}} p.250</ref></blockquote>
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