On psychosis or the Enunciating Instant of Delirious Discourse.

Abstract

We will proceed in this article to the analysis of certain discursive configurations that the psychoanalytic clinic observes as being typical of psychosis and that reveal to us their immanent structure. According to Lacan, the specific characteristic of this pathology would be a defect of enunciation, a lack of what is called the power to “take control of words,” manifested, above all, by submission to the discourse of the Other.

Psychosis would then have its own way of functioning that, coming from a structure of language, would appear in the discourse as an actualized manifestation through the subject’s word. Following Lacan’s steps, we will center our development on the problem of enunciation, making an extension of semiotics, above all, in terms of the theory of enunciative instances developed by Jean-Claude Coquet. In fact, it is in this branch of semiotic theory that, in our point of view, the concept of enunciation manifests itself in the clearest way and as a consequence takes on all of its fullness.