Lacanian Style and Prepositions
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.150
**Have you noticed anything about how Lacan's style changes from article to article?**
Theoretical move: Fink argues that Lacan's style is not uniform but text-specific, with each major essay mobilizing a particular preposition to carry exceptional theoretical weight—a stylistic finding that bears directly on translation fidelity and on the intellectual honesty required of non-French readers who wish to theorize Lacanian concepts.
one of the things that has stood out for me over the years as I have translated different texts is the way Lacan works a particular preposition almost to death within a particular text