A Social Ontology of Psychosis

Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist from the Université Rennes 2, France, where he received his doctorate in psychology. He has been a professor at several psychology departments and is currently a member of the psychoanalytic association Analítica and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad Manuela Beltrán.

Part 1: The Logical Dissertation: The Zero Symbolic Value of the Name-of-the-Father 1. Nought as a non-identical identity and the empty set {ø}: Inferring the Thing 2. The inconsistency of the Language set and the divided subject 3. Negation and name: founders of the subject 4. Language, the zero-value signifier, and the signifier of the lack in the Other, S(Ⱥ) 5. Castration and the “extraction of object a”, the offshoots of the Oedipus complex Part 2: A Genealogy of the Father and the Death of the Father: A Quest through Jouissance and Modernity 6. The Patriarchy and Monotheism: An “all”-mighty God 7. God of Vengeance and Jouissance: A God that is “not-all” 8. Is Modernity a Precursor of Psychosis? 9. From the conjugal family to the NotF: A look at a misguided conception of the family 10. Depicting the Father in Modernity and Postmodernity: The theatre of Claudel and the cinema of the Coen brothers Part 3: A Socio-ontological Appraisal of Psychosis 11. Declarations and discourse, or the intervention of Language in the founding of eventfulness and the subject-position 12. The Outside-discourse of psychosis: A bet on subjectivization and the fundamental fantasy 13. Dealing with psychosis and discourse: A case study