ABSTRACT
This chapter examines psychosis in children, without abandoning the study of neurosis in childhood. Is there a specific type of psychosis in children? Jacques Lacan points out that confusion has reigned for decades, with practitioners on the one hand refusing to apply the term “psychosis” to children, and on the other, claiming that it had an organic basis. Psychosis in children bears the same structure as psychosis. Because of this, Lacan does not give a specific theory of childhood psychosis, but only one of psychosis in general. The issue ceases to be about childhood at the moment when the psychosis is triggered off. Although the Name-of-the-Father itself is transphenomenal, the phenomena of psychosis allow the structure to be grasped. And this includes the phenomenology of psychosis in children. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
