Foreclosure and Discordance: Is Schizophrenia Thinkable?

This article argues that schizophrenia, as the illness of the psychical system in its generality, can only be approached by posing the preliminary question: ‘‘what is association?”. If one thinks in terms o f a logic of the “excluded third”, schizophrenia seems to be excluded from the field of psychoanalysis. But the author maintains that thinking in terms of a logic of the “included third” is not only coherent with psychoanalysis, but results in what is said schizophrenically supporting the discourse of the analyst.…