Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Psychosis

It is usual to associate Freud with hysteria and Lacan with psychosis. Let us develop this theme. Freud started from hysteria and considered psychosis as falling outside the limits of a psychoanalytical treatment, but he never stopped conceptualizing hysteria, obsessional neurosis and paranoia in parallel, and he could not avoid psychotics in his practice (and amongst his colleagues!). Lacan started from psychosis but he was not the first to focus on it.…