Decentering of the Subject
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.83
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Harmony Between the Sexes?**
Theoretical move: Lacan's denial of the sexual relation is the theoretical fulcrum here: the fantasy of a primordial harmony between the sexes—rooted in ancient cosmology and surviving in post-Freudian genital-stage theories—distorts psychoanalytic theory and practice, and eliminating it is constitutive of the ethics of psychoanalysis. The Newtonian/Keplerian displacement of the sphere by the ellipse with an empty focus serves as Lacan's epistemological analogue for the decentering psychoanalysis demands but consistently fails to sustain.
The 'decentering' psychoanalysis requires is difficult to sustain, Lacan says, and analysts keep slipping back into the old center/periphery way of thinking.