Diachronic Personality
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.112
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > <span id="page-110-0"></span>[LACAN ON PERSONALITY FROM](#page-7-0) THE 1930s TO THE 1950s
Theoretical move: Fink reconstructs Lacan's early (1932 dissertation) theory of personality as a diachronic, psychogenic, and dialectically developing structure of the psyche—deployed polemically against biogenic/constitutional accounts of psychosis—tracing how this conception anticipates Lacan's later multilayered psychic topology (L schema) and his clinical differentiation of structures.
personality is diachronic in some important sense… It is something that is not present all at once but is in fact defined by its very movement and progress, that is, by its meaningful—albeit not necessarily predictable—unfolding over time.