Structural Loss of Jouissance
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.26
<span id="page-23-0"></span>ANALYSAND AND ANALYST IN THE [GLOBAL ECONOMY, OR WHY ANYONE](#page-7-0) IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD PAY FOR AN ANALYSIS > **Life Is a Gamble**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that speculative financial behavior (stock-market gambling, lottery-playing) is structurally homologous to the neurotic's compulsive attempt to recover a primordially lost jouissance, establishing an incommensurability between any signifier-based gain (monetary quantification) and the incalculable, pre-symbolic loss that inaugurates subjectivity.
analysts postulate that we must reckon from the outset with the existence of an inevitable, structural loss of whatever we stake in life