Virtual Impossibility of Understanding
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.121
**The Virtual Impossibility of Understanding**
Theoretical move: A psychoanalytic ethics grounded in the unconscious requires a principled stance of nonmastery and deferred understanding—a "virtual impossibility of understanding"—which Fink operationalizes both clinically (attending to the analysand's jouissance and discourse without presuming comprehension) and hermeneutically (refusing to stabilize Lacan's polysemic textual meanings).
a presumption of the virtual impossibility of understanding, a presumption that understanding is never more than an asymptotically unfolding project