Fate and Compulsion
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.183
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Jouissance Crisis?**
Theoretical move: The passage uses a clinical case (Wesley) to illustrate how a jouissance crisis precipitating entry into analysis is structured by unconscious repetition: the analysand is compelled toward a fate that mirrors his father's, reactivating conflicts around the Oedipus complex, incest, and the choice of a love object — a structure compared to Freud's Rat Man case.
A kind of fate or destiny seemed to be involved... he experienced it as a kind of fate or destiny.