Lethal Identification
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.209
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Identifi cations**
Theoretical move: Fink distinguishes identification (a deep structural process with lethal dimensions) from identity construction, arguing through clinical material that analysand George's life is organized by three "deadly identifications" with dead or killed family figures, and connects the resulting compulsion to recover a fantasized lost state to Kierkegaard's concept of repetition.
a kind of lethal identifi cation, George also identifi es with his paternal grandfather who was killed while doing a job abroad.