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‌‌‌‌  英:madness; 法:folie

‌‌‌‌  当拉康使用“疯癫”这一术语,或是将某人称作“疯子”的时候,他都是在指涉精神病 (PSYCHOSIS):“精神病…对应的即那些总是被称作,且继续被合法地称作‘疯癫'的事物。”(S3,4)拉康又补充道:“我们没有任何理由舍弃使用这个词给人带来的享受。”(S3,4)因而,拉康非但没有把它看作一个贬义词,反而相当重视其诗意回响 (poetic resonances)的价值,而且他也赞同该词的使用,只要它被使用在精神病的精确意义上。因此,例如在1964年,拉康便称赞法国精神病学家亨利·埃伊①“固执地保留了这一术语”(Ec, 154)。

‌‌‌‌  (folie)When Lacan uses the term 'madness',or refers to someone as being 'mad',he isreferring to PSYCHOSIS: 'The psychoses...correspond to what has always been calledand legitimately continues to be called madness'(S3,4).Lacan adds that 'there is noreason to deny oneself the luxury of this word'(S3,4).Thus far from seeing it as aderogatory term,Lacan values it for its poetic resonances,and approves of its use,oncondition that it is used in the precise sense of psychosis.So,for example,in 1946 Lacancongratulates the French psychiatrist Henri Ey for 'obstinately preserving the term'(Ec,154).