Structure and The Epistemic Supposition of Clinical Categories: re-reading Jacques-Alain Miller’s Ordinary Psychosis Revisited
Structure and The Epistemic Supposition of Clinical Categories: re-reading Jacques-Alain Miller’s Ordinary Psychosis Revisited This paper comes from the midst of a cartel (a cartel is a kind of study group established by Lacan as a principle organ of his School) on clinical structures, with Jacques-Alain Miller’s S’truc dure in mind, and in a discussion of his Ordinary Psychosis Revisited amongst other papers. I presented this paper at a cartel day of the Irish Circle of the Lacanian Orientation. I don't mention Ordinary Psychosis Revisited because of its subject matter, psychosis, so much as that it comes to hand as a way to think about the way clinical categories respond to a Lacanian orientation. A question from Ordinary Psychosis Revisited. Miller proposes that with ordinary psychosis: “It’s more of an epistemic category than an objective category. It concerns our way of knowing it.” My question from the start about this corresponds to the structuralist pa...