Symptomatic Nexus
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.201
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Course of Therapy and Conclusions**
Theoretical move: Through the clinical case of Wesley, Fink demonstrates how analytic progress can be tracked via shifts in the imaginary axis (decrease in paranoia), loosening of symptomatic fixation (the nexus around the sister's death as a 'place to hang his hat'), and emerging capacity for separation—showing that Lacanian therapy does not aim at cure but at a progressive restructuring of the subject's relation to the symptom and to the Other.
some of his endless associations to his sister's death were 'fake at times,' and characterized them as 'a place to hang [his] hat'... a center of gravity or symptomatic home for him