Pre-Discursive Experience
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.73
A RESPONSE TO FOUCAULT'S CRITIQUE
Theoretical move: Fink defends psychoanalytic symbolization against Foucault's critique by arguing that working-through trauma is not merely recoding it in dominant discourse, and that Foucault's implicit appeal to a pre-discursive primary experience is incoherent — tantamount to a secularized myth of the Fall or Rousseau's State of Nature.
Does Foucault want us to return to a time before such discourses, as if we could get back to some primary experience prior to discourse? Is there some sort of primary sexual experience as such that is compromised or tainted by being put into words