The topic of female madness often presents itself in psychoanalysis by means of neurotic subjects. In this article, we question the vicinity between psychosis and madness that presents itself in the speech of neurotic women. Initial identifications, whereby children alienate themselves to the desire of the Other, determine a certain madness, not restricted only to the psychotic. To a female subject, who lives through the tortuous process of becoming a woman, madness is a possibility, since a woman, find herself torn between masculine and feminine pleasure, approaches madness, but is not completely mad.
Female madness; psychosis; phallic pleasure; feminine pleasure