Fantasized Paternal Counter-Retort
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.219
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Identifying with Freud**
Theoretical move: Through the clinical case of the "Freud Man," Fink demonstrates how fantasized identifications with a symbolic figure (Freud) organize the analysand's desire and behaviour, and how the paternal pronouncement functions as the kernel around which a counter-fantasy—"I will succeed at everything"—is constructed, leading toward an analysis of the fundamental fantasy.
the Freud Man seems to have countered his father's pronouncement in his own mind with a retort whose logic I will explore further on, but whose form I will indicate right away: 'I will succeed at everything.'