Just Say 'No' To Cogito

The Other is the dimension required in order for speech to affirm itself as The unconscious is, between the two of them, their cut in act[1] Despite its fundamental rule of free association, psychoanalysis is notorious for preventing one particular thing from being said - 'No'. Pinned to a sofa, much like a point de capiton, the analysand can and must say anything at all. However, caught in the matrix of the analyst's interpretive framework, he is unable to deny the accuracy of the remarks of this grande Autre.…