Fundamental Fantasy

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Where it appears in the corpus (3)

1. #01

   Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.65

   <span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Theoretical Backdrop of the Fundamental Fantasy**

   Theoretical move: Fink argues that the fundamental fantasy is not a single discrete phase but a triadic unit — using Freud's "A Child Is Being Beaten" as a test case — and that all three phases (primal wish, maximally repressed form, and jouissance-laden surface presentation) jointly constitute the structure through which the subject relates to the Other, situating the entire Oedipal scenario within it and linking it to the obsessive's L Schema dynamics.

   All three thus seem to have a claim to the title of fundamental fantasy and should perhaps be viewed more as a unit than as three separate fantasies.

2. #02

   Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.217

   <span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > <span id="page-215-0"></span>[THE FREUD MAN AND THE](#page-8-0) FUNDAMENTAL FANTASY

   Theoretical move: The passage establishes a distinction between popular-culture "fantasy" (pleasurable imaginary scenarios governed by the pleasure principle) and the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy (any mental scenario regardless of affective valence, potentially beyond the pleasure principle), using a clinical vignette to motivate the further distinction between ordinary/everyday fantasies and the Lacanian "fundamental fantasy."

   Readers of Lacan's work are often struck right from the outset by the term 'fundamental fantasy,' a term rarely if ever found in other psychoanalytic works. It suggests that a distinction should be made between everyday fantasies and something else, something more profound, something more original or primal, something more constitutive of the subject's very being.

3. #03

   Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.227

   <span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Beyond the Oedipal Triangle**

   Theoretical move: By reading the "Freud Man" case through Lacan's formula that "fantasy is the Other's desire," Fink argues that the analysand's static standoff fantasy stages his interpretation of his mother's unknowable (castrating) desire, locating the clinical structure of neurotic fantasy at the intersection of the preoedipal and the Oedipal and showing how identification with the father functions as a defence against — rather than resolution of — that fundamental fantasy.

   My sense is that this exact fantasy did not exist prior to the analysis and thus could not yet serve as an axiom; perhaps it was already there, waiting to come to the fore in some sense