A. What is a ’quilting-point’ in Lacanian theory?

Lacan, we have a problem. Lacanian theorizations of psychotic speech emphasize both how such speech seems overly concrete (overly literal) and free-floating, disconnected from conventional meanings. Which is it? How are we to understand how words and meanings become so detached in psychosis? We describe Lacan’s idea of the ’point de caption’ or ’quilting point’ as a way of understanding how, in neurotic speech, words and meanings come to be attached in a conventional way which still permits for semantic ambiguities. Link to board: