This article provides a construction of the case of James Joyce as a clinical case by making a review of the guidelines that Lacan emphasized in 1975-1976. Methodologically it’s based on the autobiographical work about childhood and adolescence and offers a reading of the original constellation of birth, the foundational position of the subjective orientation, the effects of rejection and the singular pathos that afflicted him: the words imposed or experience of parasite language.
Psychoanalysis; psychosis; literature; symptom