That the subject should come to recognise and to name his desire, that is the efficacious action of analysis || Jacques Lacan

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…what’s important is to teach the subject to name, to articulate, to
bring this desire into existence, this desire which, quite literally, is
on the side of existence, which is why it insists. If desire doesn’t
dare to speak its name, it’s because the subject hasn’t yet caused this
name to come forth.
That the subject should come to recognise and to name his desire,
that is the efficacious action of analysis. But it isn’t a question of
recognising something which would be entirely given, ready to be co-apted. In naming it, the subject creates, brings forth, a new presence
in the world. He introduces presence as such, and by the same
token, hollows out absence as such. It is only at this level that one
can conceive of the action of interpretation.


Lacan, J. (1988b) The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis:
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II, 1954–1955, trans. S. Tomaselli. New
York: Norton