Identification, recognition and misidentification syndromes: a psychoanalytical perspective.

Misidentification syndromes are currently often understood as cognitive disorders of either the "sense of uniqueness" (Margariti and Kontaxakis, 2006) or the recognition of people (Ellis and Lewis, 2001). It is however, necessary to consider how a normal "sense of uniqueness" or normal person recognition are acquired by normal or neurotic subjects. It will be shown here that the normal conditions of cognition can be considered as one of the possible forms of a complex structure and not as just a setting for our sense and perception data.