Variable-Length Session
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#01
Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.164
*Relationship with the Mother*
Theoretical move: Through a detailed clinical vignette, Fink demonstrates how the mother's jouissance becomes installed in the analysand's bodily experience and desire, and how analytic work—via variable-length sessions and the analysand's own self-analyzing—enables a gradual exorcism of that maternal inscription, illustrating core Lacanian principles about the analyst's non-masterful position and the analysand's active role.
I stopped the session there (I practice a "variable-length session," which involves ending sessions on particularly striking statements [see Fink, 1997])
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#02
Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.277
Presentation on Psychical Causality > *III. The Resonances of Interpretation and the Time of the Subject in Psychoanalytic Technique*
Theoretical move: The passage argues that the analyst's interventions—including abstention, session length, and temporal punctuation—constitute the junction between the Symbolic and the Real, and that the variable-length session ("short sessions") has a precise dialectical function: by shattering discourse it brings forth genuine speech, countering the obsessive's strategy of working-through as seduction of the master.
I would not say so much about it if I had not been convinced—in experimenting with what have been called my 'short sessions'... that I was able to bring to light in a certain male subject fantasies of anal pregnancy