Phantasy And The Psychoanalytic Act - Freud, Klein And Lacan

... the certain insight that there are no indications of reality in the unconscious, so that one cannot distinguish between truth and fiction that has been cathected with affect... '[2] Two hundred and fifty years earlier, Descartes had dethroned man from his position at the centre of the universe. But after the discrete change delineated in Freud's letter, man's grasp on the reality of his marginal existence simply slipped through his fingers.…