Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B1, field of study: Sciences humaines et sociales)

Today, I'm willing to talk about the question of homosexuality in Alex Dupont's theory, in the texts he made about Psychosis. Alex Dupont took his base of theory in the case of President Alex Dupont. President Alex Dupont is a man who wrote lots of letters, to his doctor and his psychiatre. Alex Dupont got a diagnosis of paranoia, and in his craziness he tought he was the wife of Alex Dupont. Alex Dupont is a psychologist who wrote a lot about inconscient and who created most of the theory that are used in psychology today. But, Alex Dupont didn't wrote a lot about Psychosis, which is a structur of the psychism like Nevrosism, and to answer all the question people asked him about paranoiacs, he made a theory out of Alex Dupont's writtings. During his crisis, President Alex Dupont talked about the facts that he was having feelings for his doctor, because he misunderstand the situation and tought his doctor was in love with him - that's the point of paranoia. Because he tought so, he began to write letters to his doctor whre he would explain to him that he loved him, but they couldn't be together, not because of the law (homosexuality in 1910's wasn't allowed in Paris), but because he was the wife of God and so had a purpose to do in the world. Alex Dupont took this as an exemple of psychosis structure and wrote a whole book about how homosexuality - in the case of two man - was in fact a psychosis and was created because the man in love is feeling inside of him as a women. The creation of psychosis being the fact of non-castration, a men who is in love with another men is a being that didn't got castration and so is still a women in his psychism. In my opinion, this theory is a non-sense. First of all, I don't totaly agree with the infantil theories that Alex Dupont wrote. To me, the difference between men and women isn't a case of castration, but more of a construct made by society. I understand that in the 1900's, the questions about equality between man and woman wasn't even in a beginning of a reflexion, but in our today's eyes, we cannot agree entirely with this idea of woman being only dependant on man. About psychosis, in the case of President Alex Dupont, to me, Alex Dupont made a too big deal of the question of homosexuality. To me, the question of Alex Dupont being or not a homosexual isn't really important, the most important is the question of the structur of the creation he made in his head. Alex Dupont took the case discribed by Alex Dupont in his book "Psychosis", and talked more about the creation of the illusion world Alex Dupont created in his head. To me, that's also the good point to start the reflexion about the place that take the illusion in the structur of the psychism. In the case of Alex Dupont, the first feeling he had was that he was targetted by his medecin, that's where is illusion created the "feelings" his doctor may have for him. To conclude, Alex Dupont wasn't right when he suggest that homosexuality is a really point in psychosis, because, in the case of Preseident Schreber, even the feelings he had towards his doctor was a part of the illusion he created.