Scansion

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Where it appears in the corpus (3)

1. #01

   Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.51

   <span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Time as Technique**

   Theoretical move: Fink defends Lacan's technique of variable-length sessions (scansion) as a directed interpretive intervention that concentrates analytic work on the most significant formulations, reversals of perspective, and unconscious material, distinguishing it from a misread "virtue of nonaction" and framing the analytic process as dialectical rather than linear.

   Lacan recommended that, rather than continue a session after analysands have said something that seems very significant, and allow them to bury a weighty phrase under things that might be of far less importance, we stop or 'scand' the session immediately after the significant formulation

2. #02

   Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.273

   <span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > <span id="page-271-0"></span>[VIOLENCE IN PSYCHOANALYSIS](#page-8-0)

   Theoretical move: Violence is endemic to analytic work at multiple levels: it inheres in the Other's desire and jouissance as they are mobilized in transference, in analytic techniques such as scansion and interpretation, and in the post-Freudian betrayal of Freud's praxis through the reversion from transference-work to suggestion.

   Scansion, when used in the context of the variable-length session, constitutes a temporal cut or break, an interruption of the analysand's speech, a rupture of an intentional meaning-making process

3. #03

   Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.163

   **MAKING LIFE LIVABLE**

   Theoretical move: The passage argues that Lacan's late concept of the sinthome reconceives the symptom not as a hidden meaning to be deciphered but as a creative Real-knotting solution to the sexual non-relation, and that the Lucretian clinamen—via Democritus's den/void and tuché—provides the theoretical model for understanding how analytic technique (scansion, equivocation) introduces turbulence into repetition, thereby producing nomination rather than metaphoric substitution.

   The practice of the 'variable-length psychoanalytic session,' Lacan's controversial technique of scansion, introduces a cut into a cycle of repetition.