Paradigm Blindness
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.27
**The Imaginary Is Centered on Understanding Meaning**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that the Imaginary register, defined as the domain of images and self-projection onto the Other, constitutes a fundamental obstacle to clinical listening: by reducing the Other's speech to what conforms to the analyst's own framework, it produces structural blindness to difference and deafness to the unconscious (slips, ambiguities), making it antithetical to psychoanalytic practice.
my frame has solidified into an 'established paradigm' and, as we know from the history of science (see, for example, Kuhn, 1962), well-established paradigms often lead us to overlook facts that do not seem to fit into those paradigms