Sufficiency
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.415
The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956
Theoretical move: Lacan performs a double theoretical move: he grounds psychoanalytic technique in the primacy of the signifier and conjectural science (against ego-psychology's reliance on intuitive understanding), while simultaneously staging a satirical structural analysis of the IPA as an institution governed by imaginary identification—where "Sufficiency" names the ego-mirage that organises the analytic hierarchy and forecloses genuine speech.
This is why I will give the name 'Sufficiency' [Suffisance] to the sole [unique] rank in the psychoanalytic hierarchy... Sufficiency thus is in itself beyond all proof. It need not suffice for anything since it suffices unto itself.