This paper analyzes the relation or place of otherness in the psychic dynamics of psychosis based on Freud’s ideas, especially those that are related to the concept of narcissism and that influenced the theories developed by Tausk and Federn, authors who ventured in the field of study and treatment of psychosis at a time when the very father of psychoanalysis declared that this was not feasible. We conclude that the concrete otherness occurred and is present in the psychotic psyche according to the three authors, so that the conflict and the therapeutic process imply the existence and the relationship with the other.
Key words:
Psychoanalysis; psychosis; narcissism; otherness