Propinquity in Session
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.50
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Interpretation Aims at Transforming the Analysand's Subjective Position**
Theoretical move: Lacanian interpretation does not aim at making the unconscious conscious or providing meaning, but at shaking up the analysand's subjective position by targeting the specific forms of jouissance—correlated with the Real—that structure their fundamental stance in life, as illustrated through detailed clinical vignettes showing how propinquity of topics in a session reveals the hidden connections underpinning that position.
Propinquity—the nearness of two topics in time during a session—is something that must be deciphered. This is part of the paradox of free association: when we encourage the analysand to simply speak his mind, he often says the very next thing that pops into his head.