Deconstructive Reading
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#01
Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.94
*Confusing the Imaginary and the Symbolic*
Theoretical move: By applying Reich's own hermeneutic principle (read everything as defense) back onto Reich's refusal of the death drive, Lacan's "deconstructive" method reveals that Reich's rejection of the symbolic—equated here with the death drive and the mortal mark of language—is itself a defense, while also showing that Reich's "character armor" misconstrues what is really a symbolic/heraldic inscription as a merely imaginary-narcissistic phenomenon.
Let us follow the path of a kind of criticism that puts a text to the test of the very principles it defends
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#02
Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.122
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Reich: Confusing the Imaginary and the Symbolic**
Theoretical move: Lacan's critique of Reich demonstrates that Reich confuses the imaginary (narcissistic image, body as natural thing) with the symbolic (the signifier-laden body, the mortal mark inscribed in family lineage and coat of arms), and that Reich's refusal of the death drive is itself — by Reich's own deconstructive principle — a defensive move against the symbolic dimension of psychoanalytic theory.
Let us follow the path of a kind of criticism that puts a text to the test of the very principles it defends