The present article seeks to explore the grave difficulties and possibilities of social bonding in psychosis. What stands out is the sacrifice dimension - concerning, in Freud, the drive and, in Lacan, the jouissance - as a condition for the establishment of a social bond which origins is traced back to the overcoming of the primal horde through the primordial crime. The Name-of-the-Father signifier inscribes such an event in the psyche and is forclosed in psychosis, which creates a grave difficulty in creating a social bond. However, the bet is that there is no impossibility, as it is shown in the excerpts of a clinical case in which the subject makes use of an invention that allows him to exteriorize the jouissance, hence promoting a certain possibility of establishing a social bond.
Psychoanalysis; social bond; psychosis; jouissance
