Recognition-Seeking in Neurosis
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.86
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **The Neurotic is Building a Case**
Theoretical move: The passage establishes a structural differential between neurosis and psychosis via the criterion of recognition-seeking: the neurotic constitutively addresses the analyst as a confirming Other and seeks validation of his subjective position, while the psychotic operates in "a language devoid of dialectic" that has abandoned the demand for recognition—the analyst's proper response to the neurotic being to redirect recognition from the stated victim-position toward the unacknowledged desire lurking in the discourse.
the neurotic seeks recognition, and although we must not provide recognition of what it is that he would like us to recognize