El siguiente trabajo se propone interrogar la necesidad de castigo –nombrada inicialmente por Freud como “sentimiento inconsciente de culpa”– en las psicosis. Para ello, se plantean algunos malentendidos surgidos a partir de considerar lo inconsciente a cielo abierto en las psicosis; para luego, teniendo como lupa de lectura algunos desarrollos de Freud sobre la necesidad de castigo y la particularidad de la Verwerfung freudiana, pensarlo en la paranoia y en la melancolía. Palabras clave Necesidad de castigo, Psicosis, Forclusión, Inconsciente ABSTRACT ABOUT THE NECESSITY OF PUNISHMENT IN THE PSYCHOSIS: A QUESTION ABOUT THE FORECLOSURED UNCONSCIOUS The following text pursuits to interrogate the Necessity for Punishment –named by Freud at the beginning of his work as “Unconscious Guilt Feeling”- in the Psychosis. For this purpose, are developed some misunderstandings which have had emerged about the open sky unconscious in the mentioned clinical structure. Then and keeping as a reference some works of Freud’s theory about the Necessity for Punishment, and the particularity of the Freudian Verwerfung, the author thinks about these in the paranoia and the melancholy. Key words Necessity of punishment, Psychosis, Foreclosure, Unconscious