Da paranoia do conhecimento à psicose: Uma travessia teórica no texto de Lacan

Abstract

In this work we analyze the theoretical bases that underlied the Lacanian thesis of paranoiac knowledge. It appeared as a twist of Lacan's doctorate thesis in 1932, where he considers paranoia as a knowledge phenomenon; in his subsequent works he extends the paranoiac precondition to the human knowledge in general. We note that "paranoia" is to designate the most universal structure of the self, allowing Lacan to attribute the paranoiac precondition to the human knowledge, and as psychosis, a clinical structure. Through an analysis of the optic project, we considered one way of interpreting how to conciliate the two concepts mentioned above.