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   In the clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, the analysand is the speaker while the analyst is just a listener. He will only punctuate the analysand's discourse with stray words, interruptions both verbal and action-oriented. The analyst, as Lacan says, would just try and return the words of the analysand in an inverted form as the truth lies at the other side of the analysand's discourse. Lacan's work is in complete contrast to the Ego-psychology of the Anna Freud school and it avoids all sorts of ego-strengthening directions of cure and does everything not to identify the analysand's desire with the ego of the analyst, making an Other of the analyst. The Lacanian direction is to destabilize the ego, make the subject acknowledge the 'signifying cut' (language cutting through, crippling the subject's combinatorial possibilities) and turn him into a 'scrap in the Real' at the end of analysis. The subject in Lacanian psychoanalysis functions through language as in all kinds of speech therapy and as lacan says, all his language and self-expression moves round the Symbolic kernel of sexual rapport at the bottom which lies the impossibility of the sexual rapport.

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   Posted by kc4u on Monday October 19, 2009 at 12:30 PM