It’s not just a matter of helping a person find more suitable partners but also addressing why they desire such unfulfilling relationships in the first place. This distinction may seem insignificant, yet I believe it plays an important role in treating those unsatisfied with their romantic lives. Reading Seminar XX: Lacans Major Work on Love, Knowledge. While we typically think of this influence as shaping our interest in a type (e.g., my father was aloof therefore I tend to date aloof men), Fink takes a back a step and shows how such dynamics shape our desire. Books by Bruce Fink A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory. The ways in which we observe our parents interacting with and (hopefully) loving one another plays a profound role in the way that we come to form our own romantic relationships. Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacans Seminar VIII, Transference. ![]() Fink hasn’t fully convinced me either, but I do think he makes an important point well worth remembering. Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. I must admit that I rarely make use of the Oedipal complex in my work there seems to me to be little reason to privilege the work of Sophocles as a unique metaphor that captures the various ways humans relate to one another. Knowledge and jouissance / Bruce Fink - Hysteria in scientific discourse / Colette Soler - The real of sexual difference / Slavoj Zizek - Feminine. Chances are we’ve all known people like this perhaps we’ve dated them or have occupied this position ourselves. For women in this position, they will go to great lengths to emulate the ‘other’ woman, even if she is just a figure on a magazine cover or an alluring celebrity. Bruce Fink, Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016). The woman’s fear is that there is another woman out there, whether real or imagined, that could somehow satisfy her partner in ways that she cannot. Similarly, there are women who are attuned to the slightest hint that their partner is interested in another woman, even if this ‘interest’ is merely a compliment paid to a co-worker or a brief glance at a passing woman on the street. The real focal point in this sort of relationship is the Other man, not the woman, for if the man is gone the interest usually dissolves. In these cases, Fink theorizes, the man is in love not with the woman but with “the structural situation itself” (p. ![]() If the woman suddenly frees herself of that man, his desire for her usually wanes. There are some men who can only love a woman if she is already involved with another man.
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