True Discourse
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.98
*True Speech versus True Discourse*
Theoretical move: The passage distinguishes Lacan's concepts of "true speech" (mutual recognition of subjects) from "true discourse" (correspondence to the thing / knowledge of reality), arguing that each undermines the other, and that both analysand and analyst are compelled to navigate an "intermediate discourse" that holds both in tension — a tension that is clinically productive when the analyst learns to hear authentic speech within it.
'True discourse' analyzes promises and says they are false since one cannot pledge the future when it is uncertain.