Bruce Fink
Biographic Data
| ID | 3664825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Fink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Fink |
| SIGNATURE | FINK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | École de la Cause freudienne and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Responses to commentators
On the value of the Lacanian approach to analytic practice
Rachel Blass has kindly asked me to discuss here what is unique to the Lacanian approach to psychoanalytic practice and its relevance to non-Lacanian analysts. A few preliminary comments about this
Introducao Clínica a Psicanalise Lacaniana
Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice
xxiii, 358 pages ; 25 cm
Triumph of Religion
Freud, an old style Enlightenment optimist, believed religion was merely an illusion that the progress of the scientific spirit would dissipate in the future. Lacan did not share this belief in the slightest; he thought, on the contrary, that the true religion, Roman Catholicism, would take in everyone in the end, pouring bucketsful of meaning over the ever more insistent and unbearable real that we, in our times, owe to science
A Psychoanalytic Ethics of Translation
Commenting on a text is like doing an analysis. How often have said to my supervisees, when they have said to me, I had the impression he meant this and that, that one of the things we must guard against most is understanding too much, understanding more than whats there in the subject s discourse. Interpreting and imagining that one understands are not at all the same. Indeed, they are diametrically opposed. would even say that it is on the basi…
Analysand And Analyst In The Global Economy, Or Why Anyone In Their Right Mind Would Pay For An Analysis
According to Lacan, Pascal invented game theory with the notion that the ante staked in a game of chance must be viewed as lost from the moment one agrees to play. (1) Whatever amount one agrees to gamble should be considered a pure loss. Hence the advice sometimes given to gamblers not to bring more money with them to the casino than they are comfortable losing, given how likely it is that they will lose all of it. This well-meaning advice is ob…
Against Understanding: Why Understanding Should Not Be Viewed as an Essential Aim of Psychoanalytic Treatment
The current emphasis on understanding in psychoanalysis—on the analysand’s part as well as on the analyst’s—is excessive if we assume that the most essential aim of psychoanalytic treatment is change. Situated within the Lacanian register or dimension of the imaginary, the process of understanding can be seen to reduce the unfamiliar to the familiar, to transform the radically other into the same, and to render the analyst hard of hearing. Our ab…
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners (Norton Professional Books)
Reading Seminar XX: Lacan's Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
The Subject and the Other’s Desire
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce "the death of the subject," Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once reigned, subjectify the alien roll of the dice at the beginning of our universe, and make our own knotted web of our parents' desires that led them to bring us into this …
The Lacanian Subject
Rumors: Uses, Interpretations, and Images
Rumors may be the oldest medium of mass communication of information or ideas. Even before there were newspapers, radio, or television, rumors communicated by word-of-mouth made and shattered reputations, and set off riots and wars. Yet contrary to predictions, rumors continue to thrive, in spite of and parallel to mass media. What accounts for the puzzling persistence and continuing significance of this little-studied social phenomenon? Jean-NOe…
Against Understanding: Why Understanding Should Not Be Viewed as an Essential Aim of Psychoanalytic Treatment
The current emphasis on understanding in psychoanalysis—on the analysand’s part as well as on the analyst’s—is excessive if we assume that the most essential aim of psychoanalytic treatment is change. Situated within the Lacanian register or dimension of the imaginary, the process of understanding can be seen to reduce the unfamiliar to the familiar, to transform the radically other into the same, and to render the analyst hard of hearing. Our ab…
On the value of the Lacanian approach to analytic practice
Rachel Blass has kindly asked me to discuss here what is unique to the Lacanian approach to psychoanalytic practice and its relevance to non-Lacanian analysts. A few preliminary comments about this
Rumors: Uses, Interpretations, and Images
Rumors may be the oldest medium of mass communication of information or ideas. Even before there were newspapers, radio, or television, rumors communicated by word-of-mouth made and shattered reputations, and set off riots and wars. Yet contrary to predictions, rumors continue to thrive, in spite of and parallel to mass media. What accounts for the puzzling persistence and continuing significance of this little-studied social phenomenon? Jean-NOe…
The Subject and the Other’s Desire
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce "the death of the subject," Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once reigned, subjectify the alien roll of the dice at the beginning of our universe, and make our own knotted web of our parents' desires that led them to bring us into this …
The Lacanian Subject
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
Reading Seminar XX: Lacan's Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners (Norton Professional Books)
Against Understanding: Why Understanding Should Not Be Viewed as an Essential Aim of Psychoanalytic Treatment
The current emphasis on understanding in psychoanalysis—on the analysand’s part as well as on the analyst’s—is excessive if we assume that the most essential aim of psychoanalytic treatment is change. Situated within the Lacanian register or dimension of the imaginary, the process of understanding can be seen to reduce the unfamiliar to the familiar, to transform the radically other into the same, and to render the analyst hard of hearing. Our ab…
Analysand And Analyst In The Global Economy, Or Why Anyone In Their Right Mind Would Pay For An Analysis
According to Lacan, Pascal invented game theory with the notion that the ante staked in a game of chance must be viewed as lost from the moment one agrees to play. (1) Whatever amount one agrees to gamble should be considered a pure loss. Hence the advice sometimes given to gamblers not to bring more money with them to the casino than they are comfortable losing, given how likely it is that they will lose all of it. This well-meaning advice is ob…
A Psychoanalytic Ethics of Translation
Commenting on a text is like doing an analysis. How often have said to my supervisees, when they have said to me, I had the impression he meant this and that, that one of the things we must guard against most is understanding too much, understanding more than whats there in the subject s discourse. Interpreting and imagining that one understands are not at all the same. Indeed, they are diametrically opposed. would even say that it is on the basi…
Triumph of Religion
Freud, an old style Enlightenment optimist, believed religion was merely an illusion that the progress of the scientific spirit would dissipate in the future. Lacan did not share this belief in the slightest; he thought, on the contrary, that the true religion, Roman Catholicism, would take in everyone in the end, pouring bucketsful of meaning over the ever more insistent and unbearable real that we, in our times, owe to science
Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice
xxiii, 358 pages ; 25 cm
Introducao Clínica a Psicanalise Lacaniana
Responses to commentators
On the value of the Lacanian approach to analytic practice
Rachel Blass has kindly asked me to discuss here what is unique to the Lacanian approach to psychoanalytic practice and its relevance to non-Lacanian analysts. A few preliminary comments about this
Psychology (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · jacques Lacan (1901-1981) (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (3 works)