Mask-Splitting Structure
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.120
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Lacan on Gide**
Theoretical move: The passage uses Lévi-Strauss's analysis of Northwest Coast dance masks to illuminate Lacan's claim that the subject is constituted through a splitting structure in which representation always re-masks what it unmasks: there is no being "behind" the mask, only a clash of identifications and the Other's voice that brought the subject into existence.
a mask that unmasks the face it represents only by splitting in two and that represents this face only by remasking it... it is when the mask is closed that it composes this face, and when it is open that it splits it