Sigmund Freud’s clinical intuition in the field of psychosis

Abstract

Defining Sigmund Freud’s clinical intuition in the field of psychosis implies analyzing the consequences of the non-analyzable of this clinical entity, as proposed by the author himself. In this work, we define and discuss the place of the guarantor of the psychoanalytic theory, occupied by the psychotic, and emphasize the assumption of a subject in the psychoses, in terms of “not wanting to know.” The impossibility of transference hesitates before Freud’s own analysis of the Schreber case. The Verwerfung is associated with a particular mode of return, being excluded from the two-way relationship between the mechanism and a clinical structure. Freud’s clinical intuition is manifested when he makes delirium or other productions of psychosis an act that bears the mark of an author. This approach allows us to support the importance and timeliness of the Freudian text in the field of psychoses.