La creencia como función anudadora en la psicosis.

Abstract

This degree dissertation aims to determine the many subjective implications that the search for “a reason to be” might have in a psychotic person, doing this through the recompilation of bibliographic data, in a physical and digital form, based on the psychoanalytic theory. It was sought to analyze the effect of religious beliefs when they are taken as the reason to live for psychotic people. The methodology that was used in this work was the one of a descriptive investigation, which consists in finding a variable, for example a certain situation, and describe this. It’s a purely descriptive method, in this case theoretical. Using this method, various key concepts were described to the development of the subject, with a psychoanalytical theory, it was also taken into consideration the implications which certain ideals carry when they are used as tools to find a place in the world, from which the person stands to confront the world. The analysis of a case it’s also in this degree dissertation, the case of Heaven’s Gate, it allow us to see an example in which a religious belief its used to find a purpose for the founder of the group, with this it’s possible to examine the different holds.