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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.311
Presentation on Psychical Causality > *From the Psychoanalyst's Pathway to Its Maintenance, Considered from the Viewpoint of Its Deviation* > *What the Psychoanalyst Must Know: How to Ignore What He Knows*
Theoretical move: Lacan grounds the analyst's authority not in privileged knowledge but in the structural function of speech: true speech (parole) constitutes the subject's being through symbolic recognition, while the analyst's task is to silence the intermediate discourse of narcissistic misrecognition in himself so as to interpolate a revelatory interpretation that undoes the latent "word chain" determining the subject's destiny.
This truth is situated solely in what Freud refers to here as the 'word chain'—which, making itself heard both in the neurosis and in the subject's destiny, extends well beyond him as an individual