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1. Against Understanding, Volume 2

   Cases and commentary in a Lacanian key

   By Bruce Fink

   Against Understanding, Volume 2, casts a spotlight on the status of case studies in psychoanalysis, which are commonly used to illustrate clinicians’ expertise and mastery rather than patients’ actual itineraries. When a case is presented, the complex, unwieldy, and often self-contradictory...

   To Be Published October 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Against Understanding, Volume 1

   Commentary and critique in a Lacanian key

   By Bruce Fink

   Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary) reduces the unfamiliar to the familiar, transforms the radically other into the same, and renders practitioners deaf to what is actually...

   To Be Published September 10th 2013 by Routledge