Les néologismes psychotiques.

Since Snell (1852) many psychiatrists and psychoanalysts have questioned about psychotic neologisms. Classically they are subdivided into passive neologisms and active neologisms (Lefevre, Seglas), following in this a process "automatic " or a "voluntary " process. The word invented, according to Seglas, "says all", in other words, says all of the delirious thought of the subject, as if it were condensed the elements, imposing itself therefore as an evidence. So the neologism would have a sufficient "weight" that would allow the subject to be content with it and to have nothing more to explain. Beyond this singularity of language, beyond the mere semiological aspect and its interest in differential diagnosis, we will see that neologism imposes itself as a necessity. This means that it cannot simply be a "sign" for the clinician, and that it cannot wear the "clothing" of the deficit. On the contrary, this creation, this invention, must have a function for the subject. These are words or expressions that go beyond the common language, that separate from the "mother tongue", that must be distinguished from the spirit word, and that highlight the singular relationship of the subject to his "Other", which have in some cases (schizophrenia) a function of regulation in relation to the "Other", to the enjoyment, and to the very thought of the delusional, whose reality, the relation to the world, could without this support drift away. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]