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  • Finally, psychosis becomes generalized to all subjects, such that Oedipal structures organized around the name-of-the-father are one way of tying the borromean knot among others or one way of responding to the inexistence of the big Other A.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Perhaps, then, the borromean clinic provides an alternative way of tying the knot beyond the Oedipus which Lacan refers to as Freud’s myth that would generate different formal impasses beyond those of masculine and feminine sexuation.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • In short, the work of the late Lacan with the borromean knots leads to a "psychotic solution", where psychosis is no longer the absence of the social relation (psychoanalysts refer to this form of psychosis as "Ordinary Psychosis"), and where psychosis now becomes a generalized state (universal psychosis common to all subjects), such that neurosis and perversion are not other than psychosis but rather specific ways in which the knot of the three orders are tied together.

    Larval Subjects . 2008

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