; the foreclosing family, where differentiation is both included and warded off in the person of one of its members who has been eliminated, rendered null, and foreclosed.w We can understand how such a concept as foreclosure operates within this extensive framework of a family where several generations at least three form the condition of fabrication of a psychotic: as for example when the troubles a mother has with regard to her own father lead to the son's inability, in turn, to even posit his desire toward his mother.