Abstract

CHECCHINATO, Durval. The madness moment. Estilos clin. [online]. 1998, vol.3, n.4, pp.102-106. ISSN 1415-7128.

Lacan clearly determined what originates the madness manifestation: a failing on the Nom-du-Père. That means the absence of a signifiant that makes impossible to the patient to circumscribe reality. Still, Maud Mannoni states with more exactitude: on the very moment that the reality comes in, the individual appeals to the other. However, this other, once lacked, presents itself as a pure absence. The individual falls in an imaginary catastrophe; it is "the end of the world".

Keywords : Mannoni; madness; Nom-du-Père.

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