Neurosis and psychosis. Defining mechanisms and links with reality.

Abstract

From  early  in his  work  Freud  devoted  enough  space  to  consolidate knowledge about psychosis, an issue that would occupy among others, until the last days of his life. Therefore, this article, we report the generalities which is a reference to  the  first  elaborations  about  the  neurosis  in  relation  to  psychosis, with  a  brief  reference  to  the  canonical  formula as  etiologic  generality  for neurosis and its application paranoia. In addition to this we wanted to address some recent conceptualizations  of  psychosis,  taking  into  account  the  relations established between the components of this system me and superego, the above crossed  by  the  concept  of  psychic  reality  that  so  many implications  for  the correct understanding of psychological phenomena.