Rationalization
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.25
AGAINST UNDERSTANDING
Theoretical move: Fink argues that psychoanalytic change operates through the putting-into-words of the unspeakable rather than through understanding or meaning-making; understanding and meaning serve ego rationalization and resist analytic transformation, so the analyst's task is to dismantle meaning and bring the unconscious to speech without providing mastery.
In a word, meaning serves the purpose of rationalization, which keeps the unconscious at bay.