THE PSYCHOSIS OF SHIPWRECKERS

This article addresses the topic of 'castaway psychosis'. Its scientific relevance lies in the fact that it expands the exploration of the psychological mechanisms of mental action analyzed and studied in the light of Psychoanalysis. Its social relevance lies in the fact that it will expand the chain of texts available to the lay public, portraying an analysis based on an epic work. The general objective of this article is to analyze how the psychotic aspect manifested itself in sailors. Psychosis is a psychological disorder that requires specialized medical intervention. The psychotic state that attacked the sailors possibly led them to a state of life in the childhood phase, in which the mother was a central figure, because the representations demonstrate a woman accessible only in the nutritional aspect, to which the child has ample access in her lactating phase, with access to sex being denied by a psychic representation of a biological condition of the desired female. Reality can be such an extreme and distressing condition for some that the alternative they find is the construction of a wonderful world in which there are no rules other than those that they create at will and retreat into, refusing to leave for any banal reasons. With sailors the situation may not have been different; Delivered to a wandering life and devotion of a destiny, all that melody led them to represent what they had created in their daydreams and lodge themselves in this fantasy, refusing to leave it, because in doing so, this would deprive them of a state of pleasure, of ecstasy; In fact, this term is somewhat controversial, because no human being can escape from themselves; with only the possibility of entering so deeply into their own psychological world that they start to ignore everything and everyone outside of it and, in the case of the shipwrecked psychosis, they refuse reality in such a way that they even deny their condition of death, or even not caring about her. This is a very delicate aspect of existence, because each person can subject themselves to a psychotic state, depending on their desire, driven [or not] by traumatic experiences and the ways in which they affect them and their state of psychic economy.