foreclusion

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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.