Spell It Wrong To Read It Right

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. According to Lacan, the psychotic never passes through the two castrations that produce the normative neurotic subject engaged in culturally valorized work that defers gratification and recognizes the other. The psychotic, unlike the neurotic, never even begins to experience the first castration of alienation. Long before Lacan poetically interpreted the remarkably lucid delusional system of President Schreber and described the psychotic structure sinthomatically, seventeenth century English poet Richard Crashaw's career maps out a similar trajectory, from the optimistic yet somewhat traumatic break in To the Every Name. People task in reading the painting, it is implied, as well as the entirety of Crashaw's art for which this painting is both the epitome and emblem, is, consequently, to 'transpose the picture quite And spell it wrong to read it right Read him for her, and her for him And call the Saint the Seraphim'.