Institutional Practical Formalism
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.87
**Section I**
Theoretical move: Fink argues that Lacan's "Variations on the Standard Treatment" performs a double theoretical move: first, exposing the pleonastic and normative logic concealed in the very title assigned to him, and second, insisting that a rigorous psychoanalytic treatment must be grounded in theory (as Freud's technique papers demonstrate) rather than in institutional practical formalism — a 'that's the way it's done' that serves career advancement rather than analytic truth.
it has been confused with a practical formalism, a set of rules 'regarding what is done and what is not done'