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progress (progrËs) Lacan claims that the idea of progress, like other humanist concepts, is alien to his teaching: 'There is not the slightest idea ===Unidirectional Concept of progress in anything I articulate, in the sense that this term would imply a happy solution' (Sl7, 122). In this respect, Lacan is a basically pessimistic thinker, and he finds support for such pessimism in the gloomier works of Freud such as Civilization and its Discontents (Freud, 1930a). These texts allow Lacan to argue that 'Freud was in no way a progressive' (S7, 183).Time===  [[Lacan ]] rejects the idea of [[progress ]] because it is based on a linear unidirectional [[concept ]] of TIME[[time]], and also because it implies the possibility of [[synthesis (see DIALECTIc)]]. Along with the idea of progress, [[Lacan ]] rejects other related [[concepts ]] such as that of a unilinear sequence of phases [[phase]]s of [[psychosexual ]] [[development]].  There is one sense, however, in which Lacan does speak of progress: the progress in psychoanalytic TREATMENT. IDSOfaT RS treatment is a process which has a beginning and an end, when this treatment is moving and not 'stuck', we may speak of progress. The treatment is progressing as long as new material is emerging. Indeed, psychoanalytic treatment may be described as 'a progress towards truth' (E, 253).    

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