A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Key Insight 1: Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Clinical, Not Academic, Practice

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Key Insight 2: The Analyst's Desire, Not the Patient's Will, Drives Therapy

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Key Insight 3: Symptoms Provide "Jouissance": Therapy Begins in Crisis

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Key Insight 4: Preliminary Meetings: Active Analyst Role in Diagnosis and Engagement

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Key Insight 5: Meaning is Never Obvious: The Analyst Prioritizes the Unconscious

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Key Insight 6: The Analyst as Cause: Embodying the "Subject Supposed to Know"

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Key Insight 7: Neurosis, Psychosis, Perversion: Defined by Distinct Mechanisms of Negation

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Key Insight 8: Neurosis: Repression, Unsatisfied/Impossible Desire, and the Other's Jouissance

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Key Insight 9: Psychosis: Foreclosure of the Paternal Function and Language Disintegration

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Key Insight 10: Perversion: Disavowal and the Staging of the Law

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Key Insight 11: The Paternal Metaphor: Explaining Existence and Anchoring Meaning

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Key Insight 12: What is A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Bruce Fink about?

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