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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.261
Presentation on Psychical Causality > *III. The Resonances of Interpretation and the Time of the Subject in Psychoanalytic Technique*
Theoretical move: Lacan argues that psychoanalytic technique must return to speech and language as its foundations, demonstrating through the Rat Man case that Freud's success lay in mobilizing the symbolic resonances of speech rather than analyzing resistances objectively; interpretation operates through a "primary language" of symbols whose effects work without the subject's knowledge, and this symbolic operation must be grounded in the dialectic of self-consciousness (Socrates to Hegel) while decentering the subject from self-consciousness itself.
we introduce him to the language of his desire, that is, to the primary language in which—beyond what he tells us of himself—he is already speaking to us unbeknown to himself, first and foremost, in the symbols of his symptom.