@article{ref1,
title="The 'I' of Elephants and Eyes: Psychotic Signification and Psychoanalysis",
journal="British journal of psychotherapy",
year="2017",
author="Watson, Jenny",
volume="33",
number="1",
pages="77-92",
abstract="Writing as an analysand I argue that without psychoanalytic support psychotic signification may retain the incomprehensibility of a private language destined never to be understood. Using Lacan's (over-quoted) belief that ?the unconscious is structured like a language?, I show how his concept of ?master signifiers?, when applied to the/my unconscious, read by metaphor and metonymy, is particularly helpful in understanding the apparently unintelligible ?language? of psychosis. Drawing on my own psychotic material, with reference to a specific ?master signifier? in one of my psychotic episodes, I also begin to explore the challenges that the solipsism of psychotic signification presents in the therapeutic relationship.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0265-9883",
doi="10.1111/bjp.12257",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12257"
}