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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.265
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **What do you believe is behind the growing emphasis on and demand for such outcome studies?** > LACAN IN AMERICA
Theoretical move: Fink argues that affect is an effect rather than a cause, and that the Lacanian concept of jouissance — the patient's hidden enjoyment in their own symptoms — is the clinically decisive category that symptom-reduction approaches and affect-centred therapies systematically miss; anxiety is then theorised as the universal convertible currency of affect in which jouissance manifests.
Affect is an effect, not a cause. This tends to get obscured when people focus so intently on affect.