Guilt and the Original Crime
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.35
AGAINST UNDERSTANDING
Theoretical move: Fink argues that analytic technique must resist popular-psychological labels (like "abuse") that exonerate the analysand and foreclose the discovery of unconscious guilt displacement, submissive agency, and deeper Oedipal crime; conscious understanding through the observing ego is insufficient and may even obstruct the treatment's real work.
As Freud (1955a, pp. 175–76) suggests, we should take their guilt as a clear indication of a crime they feel they have committed; we should not seek to exculpate them, but rather to determine the original crime in question, the original source of the guilt.