Necessary Mediation
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.44
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Lacan's Ode to Mediation** > COMMENTARY
Theoretical move: Fink argues that all analytic access to the analysand's experience is necessarily mediated by interpretation through the analyst's own symbolic order, and that the illusion of unmediated access (intuition, attunement, projective identification) reduces the Other to the Same; Lacan's "ode to mediation" is thus a defense of radical otherness and the precondition of interpretation itself.
Lacan would, I think, have us sing the praises of mediation and, indeed, offer up an ode to mediation. For it is mediation itself that forces upon us a recognition of difference