Abstract
In this article, the author attempts to shed light on the patient’s motivation for writing and sending the short story Psychosis Neurosis to his psychiatrist. The author considers the use of humour as an unconscious mechanism, as ego rebellion, and as the separation from narcissism. Furthermore, the author sees the use of sublimation as a defence that finds its origins within the reparation of injuries caused to the mother and an attempt to restore the dignity of internal objects. The article ends with Lacan’s ethics of speaking well as the ultimate desired consequence of the psychoanalytical process that appears to be touched by this story.
