Case Study Epistemology
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.15
AGAINST UNDERSTANDING, VOLUME 2 > **My Approach to Case Studies Here**
Theoretical move: Fink argues that publishable case studies inevitably involve mastery-effects, selective framing, and suppression of contradictory material, and that the ideal of therapist-patient agreement rests on an impossible fantasy of total intersubjectivity—one Lacan's theory of structural misunderstanding forecloses.
Can there be such a thing as a publishable case history that makes no pretense at mastery of the clinical material, approach to practice, or theory employed?