ABSTRACT
Schreber's paranoia is discursively interwoven with his "theological" vision of the world. The strange theological world picture that constitutes the symbolic order of Schreber's psychosis, according to Lacan, arises from the action of the primitive signifier in the formation of the religious unconscious. By "deconstructing" the quasi-metaphysical topology of conventional psychoanalytical parlance, Lacan moves from the hermeneutics of expressivity that is fundamental to twentieth-century depth psychology to a grammatology of signifying praxis. This signifying praxis constitutes the architecture of the unconscious itself, which Lacan argues is "structured like a language". A distinctive trait of unconscious discourse is the absence of internal coherence. But such a "lacuna" becomes the space within which the parade of misappropriated signification can begin to congeal and emerge as language. When drawing on Lacan's insight, it is probably useful to claim that people are not excluding maternal religion or the divine feminine.
