Death of the subject: representation and real limit in the clinic of psychosis

The paper discusses Lacan's proposal that Schreber's stabilization was made possible by a moment of 'death of the subject.' The advent of the subject is related with the 'death' of the thing itself perpetrated by the signifier. Here, Lacan mentions its relation to psychosis, in which there's a non-symbolization of castration. We discuss the notion of 'second death', related to Socrates, Antigone and Cotard, and the Bejahung as an original affirmation which includes the negativeness. We conclude that the 'death of the subject' can be an opening to the representation or a 'real' limit to the psychotic, presenting the risk of passages to the act and 'dementia-like' evolutions.