Subjectification
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.270
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **What kinds of links does Lacanian psychoanalysis have with other post-Freudian psychoanalytic approaches such as object relations and ego psychology?**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that object relations and ego psychology operate exclusively at the imaginary level, while Lacanian psychoanalysis demands work at the symbolic and real levels, and that analytic progress requires the analyst to keep the analysand's subjective position—particularly their unconscious desire and jouissance—in focus so that subjectification can occur.
The analysand must be encouraged to come into being as the subject of the desires and jouissance in the dream. As long as the analyst keeps the focus on unconscious wishes and on enjoyment that the analysand would rather not know about, subjectification will eventually come about.