From the ego to the subject

Lacan’s conceptualisation of psychosis was a dynamic process lasting for almost fifty years (Miller, 1987; Vanheule, 2011a). It should not thus come as a surprise that what he was suggesting in the thesis he sent to Freud changed very soon, generating a theoretical framework that would not be maintained for long either. Lacan never stopped questioning his own understanding of psychosis (Miller, 1987). There is at least one impressive shift in the way he views psychosis almost every ten years (Ribolspi, Feyaerts, & Vanheule, 2015; Vanheule, 2011a).