ABSTRACT
When discussing psychosis, rather than a pathology of the individual, we must consider it a true relational organisation that finds its spokesperson and symptom-bearer in the patient. In such situations, one might observe the massive use of projections, projective identifications, the fragility of the boundaries of the self, acting instead of thinking and communicating, the difficulty of symbolisation.
All this determines the peculiar concrete nature of these patients’ functioning and of the entire relational world surrounding them, and in which they have lived since the origin of life.
In the chapter, reference is also made to the rigid family myths that expropriate the self of family members and impose pathological and pathogenic objects of identification, as well as the features of these families that Racamier described as anti-Oedipal and anti-depressive.
