Polyvalence of Speech
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.40
<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 the only form of objectivity available in psychoanalysis is the semantic polyvalence or ambiguity inherent in what the analysand actually says—not any privileged access to reality—and that the big Other (the shared language outside both parties) is the condition of possibility for detecting unconscious meaning in speech acts.
There is something incontrovertible or even objective about it... this is the only kind of objectivity that is available to us in psychoanalysis.