Verbal Compromise Formation
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.33
AGAINST UNDERSTANDING
Theoretical move: Fink argues that the clinical aim is not understanding but exhaustive articulation: affects must be spoken in all their variations, incomplete utterances (aposiopesis) must be completed, and verbal compromise formations must be heard and unpacked — all of which reveals meaning as overdetermined, multilayered, and never fully masterable.
Another analysand, who, given the context, was ostensibly seeking the syntagm 'to save face,' came out with the compromise formation 'to cover face,' suggesting possible interference from the vernacular 'to cover one's ass.'