Economic Metaphor in Lacan
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.146
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Theoretical move: Fink argues that Lacan's use of financial and legal metaphors (here, *l'indice d'amortissement* as 'amortization rate') is theoretically load-bearing and should be preserved in translation rather than smoothed into generic paraphrase, because the economic register itself carries meaning about the cost and temporality of social passion.
The fact that he uses an economic metaphor here strikes me as important. Lacan uses a ton of economic and legal metaphors and I think it's important to maintain those.