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Notes
1 Analysts trained by Freud and Lacan have perhaps at times proven to be better practitioners than either Freud or Lacan.
2 One might add “schizoaffective” to the list.
3 Concerning Lacanian approaches to work with psychotics, see ECF Citation1997a, Citation1997b, Citation2005; and Fink Citation2007, Chapter 10.
4 So-called body language is not viewed as transparently understandable, it being so culturally specific and individual; it cannot be “read” directly by the analyst, but must be spoken about (which is not to say that all speech is naïvely assumed to be truthful and straightforward—far from it!). Nor do I know of any Lacanians who believe we pick up on what analysands are feeling via pheromones, something I have heard from a number of American analysts (see my comments on this in Fink Citation2016, 125–126).
5 Lacanian critiques of the use made of countertransference and of “projective identification” in other schools can be found in Miller Citation2003; and Fink Citation2007, Chapter 7.
6 See Lacan Citation1990; Soler Citation2015, Chapter 4. Note that the generally deluded belief that all will work out in the realms of love and sex if one can simply meet the right person is echoed in the oft-heard stress on “fit” in the analytic setting, it being thought by some that there must be “a good fit” between the (type of) patient and the (type of) analyst if the work is to proceed well.
7 If Chelsea understood at that early age what life insurance actually does and that Chelsea herself would have been the likely beneficiary of the policy, then we perhaps cannot even consider it to have been an unconscious death wish on her part.
8 There is nothing mysterious about how this happens (we have no need to resort to ideas like “projective identification” to explain it): if you tell someone over and over that he must be worried about something, you will sooner or later convince him that he is (or at least should be) worried about it.
9 Or we assist him in arriving at a different attitude or stance with respect to his symptoms, one in which he is less dissatisfied with the satisfactions he already has.
10 This sort of thing rarely, if ever, happens with psychotics, which is in part why Lacanians have, for the most part, stopped using the couch altogether with psychotics.