Analyst's Intervention as Making Death Present
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.375
The Freudian Thing > *The Thing's Order* > *Analytic Action*
Theoretical move: Lacan formalizes the analytic situation as a four-term dialectical structure (S, A, ego, little-other) and derives from it the analyst's technical rule: to "play dead" by distinguishing his two positions—as big Other (silence) and as little other (canceling resistance)—while grounding all speech in the Other's constitutive role as the true addressee of any discourse.
the analyst concretely intervenes in the dialectic of analysis by playing dead—by 'cadaverizing' his position, as the Chinese say… In both cases, and via symbolic and imaginary effects, respectively, he makes death present.