Partial, Provisional Understanding
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink
<span id="page-10-0"></span>[PREFACE](#page-7-0)
Theoretical move: The passage argues that psychoanalytic practice requires navigating between premature understanding and total incomprehension, and that this same dialectic applies to analysands who must accept partial, provisional formulations rather than seeking definitive answers—a position grounded in the overdetermined, fractal nature of human experience.
Can analysands be content with inescapably partial, provisional solutions? Will they come to the point of accepting that some formulations may just have to be deemed good enough at certain points in time?