Analyst's Playing Dead
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Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing' · Adrian Johnston · p.182
**10** > <span id="page-170-0"></span>**Analytic Action** > Or, as I put the same ideas elsewhere:
Theoretical move: The passage argues that the analyst's "playing dead" (silence and self-cadaverization) instantiates both Symbolic and Real dimensions of the big Other, with death functioning as an incarnation of the Real that precedes its explicit theorization in Seminar VII, and that dialectical thinking—contra bivalent formal logic—is requisite for grasping mortality's paradoxical convergence of the representable and unrepresentable.
the analyst concretely intervenes in the dialectic of analysis by playing dead (faisant le mort)—by 'cadaverizing' (cadavérisant) his position