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Bruce, Fink. A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian
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I Feel Pretty: a Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Ysraela Torno
W. Norton & Company, 2007. Libgen.io. Web. 11
Sir Victor Bautista
Eng 13 WFW4
12 September 2018
The thought expressed in a dream may, on
many occasions, be remarkably like other
thoughts the analysand expresses in the
course of her analytic sessions. We need not
be looking for something terribly highfalutin,
abstruse, or opaque.
Sometimes multiple wishes can be discerned
fairly easily, and those wishes may be
complementary or contradictory, canceling
each other out as it were. (Fink 109)
Psychoanalysis Theory and Technique. London,
England: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Libgen.io. Web. 11 Sept. 2018.
Bruce, Fink. Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A
Lacanian Approach for Practitioner. New York: W.
Sept. 2018.
Malone, Kareen and Friedlander, Stephen. The Subject of
Lacan: A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists.
United States: State University of New York, 2000.
Libgen.io. Web. 11 Sept. 2018.
In analyzing dreams, the thoughts
of the analysand are not always
profound. At times, it easy to
understand complementary wishes
that support each other or
contradictory wishes that cancel
each other out.
Indeed, hysteria and obsession can be
understood as different strategies for
keeping one’s desire alive. The obsessive
desires something that is unattainable, the
realization of his or her desire thus being
structurally impossible.The hysteric, on the
other hand, works to keep a certain desire
unsatisfied; Freud refers to this as a wish
for an unsatisfied wish, and Lacan refers to
it as a wish for an unsatisfied desire. (Fink
51).
The Lacanian Real is a topological concept
that refers to something that necessarily lies
beyond speech…The Real is unsayable…
The Real can be observed in clinical work
when there is anxiety or a break in the
client’s narrative. At a cultural level, the Real
is often implied in images of horror, fantasies
of enjoyment without limit, and in death
(Malone, Kareen and Friedlander, Stephen
13).
Hysteria and obsession preserve a
person’s desire. The obsessive
preserves by realizing that the wish is
unattainable, while the hysteric
preserves by keeping the desire
unsatisfied. The hysteric is a wish for an
unsatisfied wish according to Freud,
and is a wish for an unsatisfied desire
for Lacan.
The Lacanian Real encompasses
speech. It incorporates a person’s
desire into what he or she articulates. In
an analysis of clinical treatment, the
Real is seen in a client’s anxiety or
narrative discrepancies. In an analysis
of culture, it includes horror, limitless
fantasies of enjoyment and death.