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In this chapter, I suggest a way to re-conceptualize the transference that follows from the new understanding of the body of the psychotic, as well as from the consequences of the psychotic’s “foreclosure”. The main task of this chapter is to isolate the stakes of the ‘transference-impasse’ reached by both Freud and Lacan and, thus, to open the way for a redefinition of transference that will serve the psychotic.
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The function of the dream vis-à-vis the installation of transference is the topic of the next chapter. However, here, I provide a brief note on the nature of the “opposition”. The ‘opposition’ is in fact between different knowledges—different structures (e.g., the structure that is lacking (dream) versus a structure without lack (delusion). The dream is opposed to delusion insofar as the dream functions according to the laws of language whereas delusion does not.
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Except via Freud’s theoretical analysis in the case of Daniel Paul Schreber (1911).
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This last point raises a question concerning the precise difference regarding the function of the dream in neurosis versus psychosis. If we accept that the provocation of transference hinges upon the appearance of the dream, then what is the status of the “dream-work” for the psychotic given the primacy of foreclosure (of the Ideal) over repression? This question will be addressed in the following chapter.
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Fimiani, B. (2021). The Impasse of Transference in Psychosis. In: Psychosis and Extreme States. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75440-2_3
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