Foreclosure (psychoanalysis)

Foreclosure (psychoanalysis)

Foreclosure (also known as "foreclusion"; French: forclusion) is the English translation of a term that the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan introduced into psychoanalysis to represent a defence mechanism which he considered central to the development of psychosis.

The term has become something of a critical crux for the interrelationship of Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis.

Read more about Foreclosure (psychoanalysis):  Prehistory, Lacan's Introduction of Foreclosure, Lacan's Interpretations of Psychosis, Post Lacan: The Continuing Problematic