Diagnosis in Lacan (5 of 6): Diagnosis through jouissance

Jouissance proves an invaluable concept for differentiating between the clinical structure of neurosis, psychosis and perversion. How so? What are the characteristic (structural) responses of psychotics, neurotics and perverse subjects when it comes to jouissance? And what of perversion? What type of relationship to the Other (subject supposed to know) typifies perverse structure? Link to board:
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