Aggressivity Toward the Other
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.29
<span id="page-23-0"></span>ANALYSAND AND ANALYST IN THE [GLOBAL ECONOMY, OR WHY ANYONE](#page-7-0) IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD PAY FOR AN ANALYSIS > **Three Clinical Vignettes** > *Making the Other Pay*
Theoretical move: Through the clinical vignette of Jeffrey, Fink demonstrates how desire is constituted by and against the Other's desire/prohibition: Jeffrey's drive collapses once paternal opposition is removed, revealing that his desire was entirely structured by the need to antagonize and provoke the father-as-Other. The accompanying "depression" is reframed not as melancholy but as unacknowledged hatred—of others and of oneself.
depression often resulting, in my experience, from the fact that one hates everyone, oneself included, and cannot face or come to grips with the hatred that inhabits one