Fantasy as Axiom
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.67
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **The Fundamental Fantasy as an Axiom**
Theoretical move: The fundamental fantasy functions as an axiom that generates and subtends the subject's entire way of seeing the world; traversal of fantasy is theorized not as mere dissolution but as a shift in the axiomatic system itself — analogous to moving from Euclidean to non-Euclidean geometry — requiring a change in the premises through which the subject interprets the Other's desire.
Lacan's thesis in Seminar XIV, La logique du fantasme, that a fundamental fantasy is an axiom... it generates all of the allowable statements within a certain field.