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Interpretation

Retroactively

Lacan says, We must go pretty far along a path for the point of departure to be clarified retroactively. (p. 162) I like this line a lot. It makes me think about how we all set out along a path heading in a direction. Or, to say this in a

Interpretation v. Construction in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Again, from The Madness of Each One by Jorge Assef: From a psychoanalytic standpoint—, construction and interpretation are different. Interpretation aims at a definite point, breaks the S1-S2 relationship, opens a door to meaninglessness, etc., while construction brings together, articulates S1-S2, producing a simulation of meaning just where we need