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<blockquote>"The less you understand, the better you listen."<ref>{{S2}} p. 141</ref></blockquote>
[[Interpretation|Understanding]] (''comprendre'') has negative connotations for [[Lacan]], implying a kind of listening that seeks only to fit the other's [[speech]]] into a preformed theory.<ref>{{E}} p. 270; {{S2}} p. 130; {{S8}} p. 229-30</ref>
In order to do avoid this, the [[analyst]], must "forget what he knows" when listening<ref>{{Ec}} p.349</ref> and when offering [[interpretation]]s must do so "exactly as if we were completely ignorant of theory."<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|The Neurotic's Individual Myth]]," 1953b, trans. Martha Evans, in L. Spurling (ed.), ''Sigmund Freud: Critical Assessments,'', vol. II, ''The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis'', London and New York: Routledge, 1989, p. 227.</ref>
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Analysand]]
* [[Analyst]]
||* [[Consciousness]]* [[Signifier]]||* [[Speech]]* [[Symptom]]||* [[Treatment]]* [[Unconscious]]{{Also}}
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