Ricoeur’s “text” concept and the functions of Writing in the psychosis according to Lacan: methodological approaches

Abstract

This paper explores the methodological benefits that Ricoeur´s hermeneutics brings to Lacanian psychoanalysis in terms of investigating the functions of writing in psychosis. although it is known that psychotics usually write, works on the subject often neglect methodological issues limiting the theoretical and practical scope. In lacanian teachings there is not a unitarian concept of “writing”, but we have found at least three different meanings of “writing”: writing with mathemes, writing with Borromean knots and writing understood as some significant precipitation. These results are linked with the notion of “text” in the hermeneutics of Ricoeur in order to substantiate the relevance of the methodological graft of hermeneutic in the Lacanian psychoanalysis.