foreclusion

See also: forclusion

English

Noun

foreclusion (plural foreclusions)

  1. (psychoanalysis) Alternative form of foreclosure
    • 1991, Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Duke University Press, page 10.
      Magritte, unique among the surrealists, survived the sea change from the modern to its sequel, becoming in the process something of a postmodern emblem: the uncanny, Lacanian foreclusion, without expression.
    • 1994, Willy Apollon, "The Discourse of Gangs in the Stake of Male Repression and Narcissism", in Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure, and Society, edited by Mark Bracher et al., New York University Press, page 214.
      Indeed, if the mother is a whore, according to this representation of the gang, the son cannot trust her word to economize the foreclusion of the Names-of-the-Father that is the stake of psychosis.
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