ABSTRACT
Half a century of Freudianism applied to psychosis leaves its problem still to be rethought, in other words, at the status quo ante. Freud provided the first theory of the way in which the ego is constituted according to the other in the new subjective economy, determined by the unconscious: one responded to it by acclaiming in this ego the rediscovery of the good old fool-proof percipiens and the synthesizing function. Freud saw very clearly the element of mortification in this when he stressed what linked ‘soul-pleasure’, which is included in it, with ‘bliss’, in the sense in which it is the state of souls after death. The relation between the signifier and the subject that structural analysis reveals is to be met – it is apparent in this address – with the very appearance of these phenomena, if, returning from Freud’s experience, one is aware of the point to which it is leading.
