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Is there a connection between Spinoza’s adequate idea and Freud’s unconscious? We can indeed consider the end of analysis as a journey between the different clinical structures: neurosis, psychosis, and perversion. The schizophrenic is able to realize this journey at once: he crosses the boundary between structures, simultaneously asserting their differences. The problem arises at the level of the social bond, where the schizophrenic is condemned and marginalized: his saying remains outside any established discourse, writes Lacan in L’étourdit. At that point, how can we consider the political force of the schizophrenic’s body without organs? And, according to our hypothesis, why does it belong to the third kind of knowledge?