religious possession.

Now, the object of psychiatry is a number of misreconstructions or faulty reconstructions of personality following such a shock.

So the patient then is locked into a personality which is characterized by repetitive patterns, by all the traits that define the various psychiatric syndromes.

So, the work of the psychiatrist then is going to be to break those reconstructions, these pathological reconstructions of personality which are like prisons, hence the idea of a pathology of freedom, prisons within which the individual is unable to take any initiative, is tied to repetitive patterns of movements, of thought, etc.

So, to break that.

And then to reconstruct as much as possible a personality which would be freer or closer to the structural contingency of human personality.

Contingency is an important concept for him.

In what way do you think this can impact on his thought in general? Was it a description marked by the culture of his time, or was it quite progressive?