The mechanism of language in schizophrenia: a Lacanian study. In order to characterize what is specific about the way language operates in schizophrenia, mapping and analysis of theoretical-clinical elements found in Freud and Lacan's texts will be carried out. The line of thought in this research will follow Freud's notions from 1915 about "the word as a thing" and the "organ language", as well as Lacan's conception from 1954 about "the symbolic as real" and the idea from the 1970's about the outer world of the schizophrenic in relation to social bonding. Such elements will be exemplified through clinical vignettes and the report of Louis Wolfson, a schizophrenic.
Language in schizophrenia; psychoanalysis; clinic