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When [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[madness]]," or refers to someone as [[being ]] "[[mad]]," he is referring to [[psychosis]]:

<blockquote>"The [[psychoses ]] ... correspond to what has always been callled and legitimately continues to be called ''madness''."<ref>{{S3}} p. 4</ref></blockquote>

[[Lacan]] adds that "there is no [[reason ]] to deny oneself the luxury of the [[word]]."<ref>{{S3}} p.4</ref>

Thus far from [[seeing ]] it as a derogatory term, [[Lacan]] values it for its poetic resonances, and approves of its use, on condition that it is used in the precise [[sense ]] of [[psychosis]].

So, for example, in 1946 [[Lacan]] congratulates the [[French ]] [[psychiatrist ]] Henry Ey for "obstinately preserving the term."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 154</ref>