Institutional Discourse of Psychoanalysis
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.13
AGAINST UNDERSTANDING, VOLUME 2 > **What Is a Case Study?**
Theoretical move: Fink argues that case studies are structurally motivated by the clinician's drive to demonstrate mastery—of theory, technique, and diagnosis—and that genuine clinical honesty is only possible outside institutional power relations, a critique that operates as a meta-theoretical reflection on the epistemological conditions of psychoanalytic knowledge production.
Due, however, to the general structure of psychoanalytic training institutes... established analysts seek instead to lure trainees into their camp, if not onto their couches, and trainees seek to win the favor of senior analysts