Mental illness is defined as the revival of the primitive

Evidence

The shadow of this return most often takes the form of a threat because the revival of the primitive is what defines mental illness. Indeed, Freud affirms that psychic disturbances always bear witness to the possibility of such W h a t are called m ental diseases inevitably produce an im pression in the laym an that intellectual and m ental life have been destroyed. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1327

Categorization

• QUESTION: This frames illness as return-with-available-content; Malabou’s trauma-neurosis will instead be a break with all prior content. Contrast worth holding.
• XREF: connects to: Fanon’s theory of the ‘sociogenesis’ of mental illness critically absorbs Lévi-Strauss’s examination of the link between madness and the symbolic structure of society. — Disalienation and Structuralism