Psychoanalysis (n.) is a kind of treatment that aims to lead the patient to recognize, which is to say to create, and to bring into existence, creates a new presence in the world... one which is called 'the truth about his desire in speech'.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is a mode of thought that is more 'real' the closer we get to it being funny.
Psychoanalysis (n.) works out from the assumption that nobody (including the analyst) understands anything of what happens.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is about the ethical and transformative implications of cultivating this work with desire.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is at is most fundamental, not a theory or technique showing an individual the way to accommodate himor herself to the demands of social reality... it explains how something like 'reality' constitutes itself in the first place.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is based on the symbolic order, which transcends the opposition between smoochy-woochy affect and the intellectual dimension, both of which are resistances to analysis.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is concerned with retaining whatever is significant, without always knowing what to do with it.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is defined by the fact that rather than accommodating one to the demands of social reality (as we tend to think of psychoanalysis), it concerns explaining how 'reality' constitutes itself in the first place.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is grounded in the principle that nobody understands anything of what happens.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is not a technique that enables a human being to accept the repressed truth about oneself... it explains how the dimension of truth emerges in human reality.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is not about the patient's well-being or his successful social life or personal self-fulfillment. It is about bringing the patient to confront the elementary coordinates and deadlocks of his or her desire.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is rooted in the idea that human psychology is regulated by logical complexes rather than by biological instincts.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is inextricably linked to humor. The closer we get to it being funny, the more it is real psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.