El valor artístico del pensamiento pre-lógico en la psicosis del caso Aimée de Jacques Lacan

Abstract

: In 1932 Lacan highlighted a positive value in the delusions associated with paranoid psychoses. In his thesis On the Paranoid Psychosis as it Relates to the Personal-ity , Lacan used the tools of psychiatry, psychoanalysis and anthropology, among others, in an attempt to explain the ways of thinking observed in the Case of Aimée. Lévy-Bruhl’s studies on “prelogical” thought and the “laws of participation” thus became fundamental sources used to highlight the value of artistic production related to psychosis, against the grain of a degenerative conception of the condition. By drawing on parallels with Aby Warburg’s inquiry into the survival of images, we offer a conclusion on how to read these anthropological categories used to describe ostensibly “primitive” conditions.