Foreclosure (psychoanalysis)

In psychoanalysis, foreclosure (also known as "foreclusion"; French: forclusion) is a specific psychical cause for psychosis, according to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

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Psychoanalysis
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Important works
  • The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
  • The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)
  • Three Essays on the Theory
    of Sexuality     (1905)
  • Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
  • The Ego and the Id (1923)
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