Partial Interpretation
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.13
**Making Do without the Satisfactions of Understanding**
Theoretical move: Fink argues that psychoanalytic interpretation is irreducibly partial and provisional—never commanding absolute truth-value—and that this epistemic limitation is not a defect to be overcome but a structural condition of the work, one whose acceptance actively guards against the illusion of mastery.
it is better that we do so after we have gotten to know the analysand fairly well... even as we realize full well they are only partial and provisional.