Paging conties and psychos

Can you explain to me how to knots work exactly with Lacanese/psychoanalysis in general? It seems like Lacan would be suggesting that through cutting one of the rings you would be able to separate the remaining two, like cut the imaginary and you can separate the real from the symbolic, cut the real and you can separate the symbolic from the imaginary, and so on and so forth.

You (we) are (sadly) not in the position to cut any one of them because your very ability to question each one of them hinges on them being operative.

Oh, so it would be like…say retelling a story in a certain way to fit present circumstances?

you can not 'cut' any of the ontological rings because that would mean that you surpass the very human condition which allows you to question ontology in the first place. the closest you van get is a psychotic episode.

Wicked.

what?

What's a psychotic episode, really? I was a patient at a psychoanalytic practice and when I had gotten these very vivid and forced images in my head of family and friends sort of 'melting' away and they [psychoanalysts] said it was a psychosit episode, and that I might be psychotic. This diagnosis got them to advise me to get a prescription for an antipsychotic (Olanzapine/Zyprexa) which completely knocked me out and then led to me going on fulltime antidepressants (Sertraline and Escitalopram, the latter of which I still use today, but I'm trying to reduce and eventually get rid of it).

Don't mean to shit on psychoanalysis in general, but my own experiences with it have been absolutely useless, if not detrimental to understanding what's wrong with me.

First of all, nice dubs.

More importantly though get off the meds as soon as you feel ready. Porky is lining his pockets by making you sicker. What you really need is psychotherapy.

t. person hospitalized for psychosis

Psychotic episodes are loss of contact with reality.

To be clear, normal people can have hallucinations. Many have them as they're going to sleep, or if they're sleep deprived. The difference between these 'sane hallucinations' and a psychotic break is insight. Sane people realize they're seeing shit when they hallucinate. When you're in a psychotic break, insight is nonexistent. The conjured reality trumps (lololol) the actual reality, and the formation of delusion is the inevitable result.

Note I never mentioned schizophrenia in this passage. That is because psychotic episodes can occur without schizophrenia, in the context of a brief psychotic break, or in schizophreniform disorder, as cycloid psychosis, as folie à deux, and many many other obscure or even culture-bound forms like running amok.

The difference that separates schizophrenia from all of the above is that it is a chronic disorder: it is not episode dependent like the psychotic bipolar but a near permanent fixture of life for the schizophrenic. This is why you must present with psychotic symptoms for at least six months in addition to a general decline in general interpersonal, career, and psychosocial functioning through that time period. In addition to the symptomology, schizophrenics have a number of cognitive deficits, in working memory and sustained attention as well as motivation and learning. This is because psychotic episodes are not good for the brain in the long-term.

Neither are antipsychotics, so schizophrenics have the choice between a shit covered rock and a shit covered hard place. Talking cure doesn't work either, which is why I give money to schizophrenic hobos on my block.

I really can't.

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