Further to Marijo's clarification of my misuse of the term "psychosis" in yesterday's entry, I've just come across an instance where Freud objects to the use of the term "schizophrenia" (literally "split mind" in Greek) to describe what at the time was called dementia praecox:

In the case of Bleuler's designation of schizophrenia for the same group of forms, we might also object that the name appears only to be really useful if one forgets its literal meaning.

He preferred the term "paraphrenia":

...which, having no determinate content in itself, expresses the disorder's relations to the securely named paranoia and at the same time recalls the hebephrenia that has been subsumed by it.

I, for one, wish he had been more broadly successful in this particular attempt at naming.