Resistance

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1. #01

   The Interpretation of Dreams · Sigmund Freud

   ***The Analysis of a Sample Dream*** > **ANALYSIS**

   Theoretical move: Freud advances the wish-fulfilment theory of dreams by distinguishing manifest from latent dream content, arguing that even painful or anxiety dreams may conceal wish-fulfilments that only become visible through interpretation, and introduces 'distortion' as the key problem requiring explanation.

   your opinion that the dream is nonsense probably signifies merely an inner resistance to its interpretation

2. #02

   The Interpretation of Dreams · Sigmund Freud

   **(A) FORGETTING IN DREAMS**

   Theoretical move: Freud argues that the forgetting of dreams is primarily caused by psychic resistance rather than the gap between sleeping and waking states, and that the sleeping state enables dream formation precisely by diminishing the endopsychic censor—a conclusion demonstrated through clinical practice, delayed dream interpretation, and the structural analogy with neurotic symptoms.

   I strike a resistance which I make plain to the patient; by encouraging and urging I help him to become reconciled to some disagreeable thought; and as soon as I have succeeded he exclaims, 'Now, I can recall what I have dreamed.'

3. #03

   Reading Lacan's Écrits: From 'The Freudian Thing' to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache' · Derek Hook, Calum Neill & Stijn Vanheule (eds.) · p.39

   [The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis](#ch05.xhtml_tocbook-part-003) > The other’s discourse

   Theoretical move: Lacan's critique of ego psychology is mobilized to demonstrate that the ego is structurally an alienating sedimentation of the other's discourse and a device of resistance against the unconscious, such that the proper analytic use of the ego is as a *via negativa* — a negative index pointing toward the speaking subject of the unconscious rather than a therapeutic ideal to be strengthened.

   by contrast with the unresisting lectern, the ego is 'a means of resistance'... Ego psychology, in seeking to strengthen egos, puts itself in the service of resistance against the unconscious

4. #04

   An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis · Dylan Evans

   <span id="9781134780112_Part14.xhtml_ncx_43"></span><span id="9781134780112_Part14.xhtml_page_0056"></span>***D*** > <span id="9781134780112_Part14.xhtml_ncx_46"></span>**defence**

   Theoretical move: Lacan reconfigures Freudian defence by distinguishing it structurally from resistance—defences are permanent symbolic structures (effectively equivalent to fantasy) while resistances are transitory imaginary responses—and further identifies desire itself as dialectically constituted by a defensive prohibition against exceeding the limit of jouissance.

   resistances are transitory imaginary responses to intrusions of the symbolic and are on the side of the object, defences are more permanent symbolic structures of subjectivity

5. #05

   An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis · Dylan Evans

   <span id="9781134780112_Part29.xhtml_ncx_173"></span><span id="9781134780112_Part29.xhtml_page_0195"></span>***S*** > <span id="9781134780112_Part29.xhtml_ncx_198"></span>**Suggestion**

   Theoretical move: The passage distinguishes psychoanalysis from suggestion/hypnosis by arguing that psychoanalysis operates precisely where suggestion fails: by maintaining the distance between identification (I/ego-ideal) and objet petit a, rather than collapsing them as hypnosis does, and by directing the treatment rather than the patient, embracing nonsense over signification, and holding the analyst's knowledge as merely presumed rather than real.

   Suggestion also arises when the patient's RESISTANCE is seen as something that must be liquidated by the analyst. Such a view is completely foreign to psychoanalysis, argues Lacan, since the analyst recognises that a certain residue of resistance is inherent in the structure of the treatment.

6. #06

   An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis · Dylan Evans

   <span id="9781134780112_Part28.xhtml_ncx_164"></span><span id="9781134780112_Part28.xhtml_page_0186"></span>***R*** > <span id="9781134780112_Part28.xhtml_ncx_172"></span><span id="9781134780112_Part28.xhtml_page_0193"></span>**resistance**

   Theoretical move: Lacan reframes resistance as a structural feature of the analytic process rooted in the imaginary register of the ego, not the ill will of the analysand, and distinguishes it from defence by locating resistance on the side of the object (transitory, imaginary) and defence on the side of the subject (stable, symbolic), while also implicating the analyst's own resistance as the true source of any obstruction to treatment.

   resistance is not a question of the ill will of the analysand; resistance is structural, and it is inherent in the analytic process... 'there is no other resistance to analysis than that of the analyst himself'

7. #07

   Seminar I · Freud's Papers on Technique · Jacques Lacan · p.25

   **II**

   Theoretical move: By tracing Freud's intermediate technique between hypnosis and dialogue (hand-pressure, the lifting of the barrier), Lacan identifies the embryonic form of the analytic relationship to discourse and resistance, using the Lucy R. and Anna O. cases to contrast elegant, compressed symptom-resolution with the extended labour of working-through.

   Preliminary comments on the problem of resistance

8. #08

   Seminar I · Freud's Papers on Technique · Jacques Lacan · p.54

   **IV** > **M. HYPPOLITE:** *Rejection [rejet]?*

   Theoretical move: Lacan argues that speech has two fundamental dimensions—mediation (hooking onto the other) and revelation (of the subject's truth)—and that resistance arises precisely when revelatory speech fails to arrive, causing speech to collapse entirely into its mediatory/relational function; this dialectic between full and empty speech structures the entire analytic experience, including the ego's constitutive dependence on the other.

   Resistance is produced at the moment when the speech of revelation is not said... it emanates from somewhere else, namely from the subject's impotence to end up in the domain in which his truth is realised.

9. #09

   Seminar I · Freud's Papers on Technique · Jacques Lacan · p.284

   xxn > The concept of analysis > **0. MANNONI: ft** *is the navel of speech.*

   Theoretical move: Lacan argues that transference must be understood through the dialectic of the imaginary and symbolic registers rather than reduced to the real (Ezriel) or to ego-normalization (ego psychology); the imaginary relation, rooted in the mirror stage and the ideal ego, crystallizes transference while the symbolic—via speech and the analyst as mediating Other—enables the subject's integration of repressed history.

   if the transference gets too intense - a critical phenomenon takes place, evoking resistance, resistance in the most acute form in which it manifests itself - silence.

10. #10

    Seminar XV · The Psychoanalytic Act (alt. translation) · Jacques Lacan · p.89

    **THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN** > **Seminar** 7: **Wednesday 24 January 1968**

    Theoretical move: The passage argues that the psychoanalytic act is constitutively structured around the analyst's refusal to act, which makes transference possible, and that the Objet petit a is the horizon-terminus toward which every act tends — a claim illustrated via the asymmetry Clausewitz introduces into war-discourse as a structural analogue to the analytic situation.

    The resistance of the psychoanalyst in this structuring is manifested by the fact, which is altogether constitutive of the analytic relation - that he refuses to act.

11. #11

    Seminar XV · The Psychoanalytic Act · Jacques Lacan · p.89

    **THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN** > **Seminar** 7: **Wednesday 24 January 1968**

    Theoretical move: The passage argues that the psychoanalytic act is constituted by the analyst's refusal to act, which structurally opens the space for transference and the Subject Supposed to Know; simultaneously, Lacan grounds the necessity of signifying sequence for any 'consequence' to be conceivable, and maps the objet petit a as the horizon-end of every act, not just the analytic one.

    the resistance of the psychoanalyst in this structuring is manifested by the fact, which is altogether constitutive of the analytic relation - that he refuses to act.

12. #12

    Seminar II · The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.51

    II > A materialist definition of the phenomenon of consciousness

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that the ego is not the subject but a particular imaginary object within experience, and that the core of analytic technique requires intervening at the decentred, symbolic level of the subject's history/destiny rather than at the level of the ego — thereby distinguishing genuine analysis from suggestion and from Ego Psychology's reduction of the Freudian discovery.

    The resistances always have their seat in the ego, so analysis teaches us. What corresponds to the ego, is what I sometimes call the sum of the prejudices which any knowledge comprises.

13. #13

    Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings · Sigmund Freud

    Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

    Theoretical move: Freud argues that the transition from hypnotic/cathartic technique to modern free-association analysis reveals that patients do not remember the repressed but instead repeat it as action under conditions of resistance — establishing repetition-compulsion as the central dynamic of transference and the structuring force of analytic work.

    The greater the resistance, the more thoroughly remembering will be replaced by acting out (repetition).

14. #14

    Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings · Sigmund Freud

    Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

    Theoretical move: Freud argues that the analyst's central technical task is to contain the patient's compulsion to repeat within the transference as a controlled "playground," transforming acting-out into memory and ultimately into a workable transference neurosis; the decisive therapeutic change comes not from identifying resistance but from working through it—a phase that distinguishes analysis from suggestion-based therapy.

    This process of working through the resistances may in practice become an arduous task for the patient and a considerable test of the physician's patience. But it is the phase of treatment that effects the biggest change in the patient.

15. #15

    The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk · Samuel McCormick · p.262

    The Writing on the Wall > First and Final Words > **Hollowed, Stuffed, and Leaning Together**

    Theoretical move: The passage argues that empty speech, as the foundational medium of analytic intersubjectivity, is structurally complicit in the patient's resistance: it traps analyst and analysand alike in an imaginary ego-other dyad mediated by an ideological "objective system," converting the transformative potential of full speech into false communication and reducing analytic experience to an ideological apparatus.

    The patient's resistance is always your own, and when a resistance succeeds it is because you are in it up to your neck.

16. #16

    Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings (alt. ed.) · Sigmund Freud

    Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

    Theoretical move: Freud pivots from the earlier therapeutic goal of conscious remembering (via catharsis/hypnosis) to the recognition that patients under resistance *repeat* rather than remember — acting out repressed material as present reality — and that this compulsion to repeat is structurally tied to transference and resistance, reframing repetition as the primary clinical phenomenon to be worked through.

    The greater the resistance, the more thoroughly remembering will be replaced by acting out (repetition)... it is the resistances that determine the sequence of what is repeated.