TY - BOOK AU - Di Rocco,Vincent TI - Representation That Drives You Insane. . . The Psychopathology of the Representative Process in Psychotic States PY - 2017///. N1 - 22 N2 - This article focuses on the hypothesis that a representation may paradoxically confront the apparatus of the psyche with the unrepresentable, which is not directly linked to the type of experience to be represented, but instead to what appears to be a failure of the work of the psyche’s processes of transformation. This confrontation with the unrepresentable mobilizes the psyche on two levels: first of all, the different levels of the expression of symptoms may be understood as an attempt to represent the experience that remains elusive; and secondly, in the psychotherapeutic setting, the forms of the subject’s expression represent an attempt to indicate the failed processes of the psyche. Two clinical examples illustrate this logic UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-mediterraneennes-2017-1-page-167?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -