Wild Psychoanalysis
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.152
**CLINIC OF THE CLINAMEN**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that Lacan's engagement with Joyce's writing marks a decisive theoretical pivot: rather than "applying" psychoanalysis to art psychobiographically, Lacan derives from Joyce a new definition of the symptom as *sinthome* — a creative knotting of the three registers that provides an organization of jouissance and becomes the basis for identification, reorienting the aim of the cure from symptom-removal to identification with one's sinthome.
Freud set a bad example when he interpreted Leonardo's life and work and indulged in a practice that in another context he would have called 'wild psychoanalysis,' an approach that he considered pseudo-scientific and 'technically objectionable.'