Verbal Bridge
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.131
**The Limits of Meaning**
Theoretical move: Interpretation in psychoanalysis aims not at producing meaning but at reducing signifiers to their nonsensicality, as demonstrated by the Rat Man case where symptomatic formations are generated by letter-based (non-semantic) relations among signifiers—it is the signifier itself, not meaning, that subjugates the subject.
Freud refers to these links as 'verbal bridges' (1955a, p. 213); they have no meaning per se, deriving entirely from literal (that is, letter-based) relations among words.