The Navajo, Psychosis, Lacan, and Derrida

Abstract

����� ��� The effective violence of disseminating writing. An infraction marking the “symbolic.” Would every possibility of disorder and disorganization in the symbolic, from the vantage of a certain outside force, would everything that forces the symbolic, derive from the specular (or the “imaginary”), that is, from a “real” determined as the “impossible”? From schizophrenia or psychosis? In this case, what are the conclusions to be drawn? —Jacques Derrida, Positions So psychoanalysis “recognizes itself” when it is confronted with those very psychoses which nevertheless (or rather, for that very reason) it has scarcely any means of reaching: as if the psychosis were displaying in a savage illumination, and offering in a mode not too distant but just too close, that towards which analysis must make its laborious way.