To read Lacan closely is to follow him to the letter, to take him
literally, making the wager that he comes right out and says what
he means in many cases, though much of his argument must be
reconstructed through a line-by-line examination. And this is
precisely what Bruce Fink does in this ambitious book, a fine
analysis of Lacan's work on language and psychoanalytic treatment
conducted on the basis of a very close reading of texts in his
Icrits: A Selection.
As a translator and renowned proponent of Lacan's works, Fink is
an especially adept and congenial guide through the complexities of
Lacanian literature and concepts. He devotes considerable space to
notions that have been particularly prone to misunderstanding,
notions such as "the sliding of the signified under the
signifier,"or that have gone seemingly unnoticed, such as "the ego
is the metonymy of desire." Fink also pays special attention to
psychoanalytic concepts, like affect, that Lacan is sometimes
thought to neglect, and to controversial concepts, like the
phallus.
From a parsing of Lacan's claim that "commenting on a text is
like doing an analysis," to sustained readings of "The Instance of
the Letter in the Unconscious," "The Direction of the Treatment,"
and "Subversion of the Subject" (with particular attention given to
the workings of the Graph of Desire), Fink's book is a work of
unmatched subtlety, depth, and detail, providing a valuable new
perspective on one of the twentieth century's most important
thinkers.
Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, analytic
supervisor, and professor of psychology at Duquesne University in
Pittsburgh. He is the author of A Clinical Introduction to
LacanianPsychoanalysis (1997) and The Lacanian Subject (1995). He
has coedited three volumes on Lacan's seminars and is the
translator of Lacan's Seminar XX, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits
of Love and Knowledge (1998), Icrits: A Selection (2002), and
Icrits: The Complete Text (forthcoming).
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