Pivotal Event
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.181
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > <span id="page-179-0"></span>[A Case of Obsession from a Lacanian Perspective](#page-8-0)
Theoretical move: The passage introduces a clinical case of obsession through the narration of a pivotal traumatic event — a mother's psychotic murder of her daughter — establishing the methodological premise that such an event retroactively organizes the subject's history, while flagging an apparent paradox: the events may prove less traumatically constitutive than they initially appear.
every now and then a pivotal event in someone's life can be discerned that retroactively organizes and reorganizes much of what came before and leaves its indelible mark on much of what comes after