Field of Semblance
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.98
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Semblance**
Theoretical move: Fink maps Lacan's concept of semblance across the three registers (Imaginary/Symbolic/Real) and argues that all discourse is constituted by semblance, while psychoanalysis distinguishes itself by attending to the truth of the unconscious that semblance systematically excludes — with the Name-of-the-Father and the symptom serving as paradigm cases of signs whose referent remains unknown.
Lacan sketches out some interesting boundaries, so to speak, of the field of semblance: he tells us that semblance is rife in the animal kingdom, being found in all the varied display behaviors animals engage in during courting rituals