Passage from comprehension to truth: structuralism’s contribution to the Lacanian psychosis theory. From comprehension to truth: structuralism’s contribution Lacanian theory of psychosis. The argument tries to show that it is the insertion into the structuralist rationality that finally leads Lacan to provide the description of a specific device in the causation of psychosis, allowing, through the distinction between knowledge and truth, the overcoming of the impasses of his doctoral thesis, then based on criteria of social consent and on the attempt to overlap explanation and comprehension.
Structuralism; Lacanian psychoanalysis; psychosis theory