Is the mental debility a possible state of the subject?

Authors

  • Michel Ferrazzi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v14i26p36-45

Keywords:

mental debility, Lacan, verneinung, RSI, metonymia

Abstract

Some authors introduce mental debility as being a psychotic adaptation and others as a way of operating close to perversion, while neuro-scientists consider mental debility due to brain damages or disorders. How can psychoanalysis to understand the mental debility, in the light of Lacan teachings? On the basis of passages of its seminars and refering the freudian concept about "Verneinung", this work tries to explain the statute of the thought. It arrives thus at a propose of the mental debility which can appear paradoxical, claiming the operation of a knot RSI, but not like in repression, and would leave the metonymic function as organizer of the psychic functioning and the unconscious falasser. It would have something of 'subject' in the fluctuation that from there results?

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Published

2009-06-01

How to Cite

Ferrazzi, M. (2009). Is the mental debility a possible state of the subject?. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 14(26), 36-45. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v14i26p36-45