Beating Fantasy
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.224
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **A Child Is Being Molested or Abused**
Theoretical move: By mapping Freud's three-phase beating fantasy schema onto a clinical case (the "Freud Man"), Fink distinguishes between pure wish-fulfillment at the unconscious root of fantasy and the ambivalent, unbearable jouissance Lacan associates with the fundamental fantasy, thereby articulating a structural difference between Freudian and Lacanian understandings of unconscious fantasy.
Phase two, the part that remained unconscious and was a pure construction of the analysis, was the wish to be beaten by his father for having seduced his mother.