Analyst's Vocabulary Restraint
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.34
**Whose Understanding?**
Theoretical move: Fink argues that the analyst's use of their own vocabulary — even seemingly neutral everyday terms — constitutes an act of understanding that short-circuits the analysand's own articulation; clinical practice therefore requires radical restraint in language, confining itself as far as possible to the analysand's own words so as not to foreclose subjective exploration.
We should strive to introduce little vocabulary of our own, since even everyday words such as 'personality' and 'relationship' imply a whole way of thinking about people and life that may be quite foreign to our analysands' ways of thinking about them.