Radical Intersubjectivity
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.42
<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 Lacanian thesis "the unconscious is structured like a language" entails a radical intersubjectivity mediated entirely by the symbolic order, such that there is no unmediated access to another's unconscious — not through speech, body language, or affect — and all analytic communication is therefore constitutively misunderstanding requiring interpretation.
Lacan's introduction of the concept of the Other with a capital O as language… allows for a kind of radical intersubjectivity: every one of us is a product of the symbolic order