ABSTRACT
Paul-Claude Racamier, 1924-1996, was a full member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and a former director of the training Institute of the Society. One of the leading figures behind the College for Family and Group Psychoanalysis, he was also the first and foremost French analyst to treat psychotic patients, reformulating how treatment should be undertaken and with what outlook. For it is highly evident that paradox, considered in isolation, is only one fragment of psychic life; it interests us less in itself than as a model: the model of a general functioning that the author have proposed to call paradoxicality. For as we have clearly understood, we have just imperceptibly entered the register of the schizophrenias a domain so well-trodden by him that here he will merely cross it in long strides. There is, in fact, one visit he makes almost every time he addresses the question of paradoxes: it is the visit to Medusa.
