[The aggressivity in schizophrenics].
Three young male patients with schizophrenia who developed aggressive acts towards themselves and others, suicide attempts, assaults, and a murder, are reported and discussed from the viewpoints of the language and the symbolization. The characteristics reported in proceeding researches were found in these three schizophrenics. It was when these patients interrogated, "What is the father?" that the psychosis was triggered and that the aggressivity closely connected with the conception of the death became manifest. These patients interrogated themselves as to being human and had to prove that they belonged to the human beings. Why the aggressivity in schizophrenics becomes manifest in this way? Because the symbolization didn't take place in schizophrenics and they were not subject to the internal death, necessary to be structured in the symbolic dimension. As a result, when they are asked, "What is the father? What is the human?" at the beginning of the psychosis, the <Thing> manifests without symbolic articulation. The aggressivity in schizophrenics is considered as the function to murder the <Thing> and to induce the internal death from the outside. It's Law-of-the-Father that inhibits the manifestation of the <Thing> for subjects in the symbolic dimension. However, Law-of-the-Father doesn't function in schizophrenics and returns in the delusion and the hallucination at the beginning of the psychosis when 'what is the father' comes in question. The absolute other exhibiting Law-of-the-Father orders the murder of the <Thing>, and in consequence the aggressivity manifests by the orders.
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Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne.
D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D003643:Death; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology