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==Jacques Lacan==
===Rejection of Progress===
[[Lacan]] claims that the [[idea ]] of [[progress]], like [[other ]] [[humanist]] [[:category:concepts|concepts]], is [[alien ]] to his teaching:
<blockquote>"There is not the slightest idea of progress in anything I articulate, in the [[sense ]] that this term would imply a happy solution."<ref>{{S17}} p.122</ref></blockquote>
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]].
These [[texts ]] allow [[Lacan]] to argue that "Freud was in no way a progressive."<ref>{{S7}} p.183</ref>
===Unidirectional Concept of Time===
[[Lacan]] rejects the idea of [[progress]] because it is based on a linear unidirectional [[concept ]] of [[time]], and because it implies the possibility of [[synthesis]]. [[Lacan]] rejects other related [[concepts ]] such as that of a unilinear sequence of [[phase]]s of [[psychosexual ]] [[development]].
===Progress in Psychoanalytic Treatment===
There is one sense, however, in which [[Lacan]] does [[speak ]] of [[progress]]: the [[progress]] in [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]]. [[Treatment]] is a [[process ]] which has a beginning and an [[end of analysis|end]]. When the [[treatment]] is moving and not 'stuck', we may speak of [[progress]]. Indeed, [[psychoanalytic treatment]] may be described as "a progress towards [[truth]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 253</ref>
==See Also==
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