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The [[analyst]]'s role is to reveal the [[truth]] inscribed in the [[deception]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[speech]].
Although the [[analysand]] may in effect be saying to the [[analyst]] "I am deceiving you," the [[analyst]] says to the [[analysand]] : <blockquote>"In this I am deceiving to you, what you are sending as message is what I express to you, and in doing so you are telling the truth.<ref>{{S11}} p.139-40; {{S4}} p.107-8)</ref></blockquote>
==False Appearances==
==Error and Mistakes==
[[Psychoanalysis]] has shown that the [[truth]] about [[desire]] is often revealed by mistakes ([[parapraxes]]).
The complex relations between [[truth]], mistakes, error and [[deception]] are evoked by [[Lacan]] in a typically elusive phrase when he describes "the structuration of speech in search of truth" as "error taking flight in deception and recaptured by mistake."<ref>{{S1}} p. 273</ref>
==The Real==
The opposition which [[Lacan]] draws between [[truth]] and the [[real]] dates back to his pre-war writings,<ref>{{Ec}} p.75</ref> and is taken up at various points; <blockquote>"We are used to the real. The truth we repress."<ref>{{E}} p.169</ref></blockquote>
However, [[Lacan]] also points out that [[truth]] is similar to the [[real]]; it is impossible to articulate the whole [[truth]], and "[p]recisely because of this [[impossibility]], [[truth]] aspires to the real."<ref>{{TV}} p. 83</ref>
==See Also==
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* [[Analysand]]* [[Analyst]]* [[Cause]]* [[Desire]]||* [[Dialectic]]* [[Philosophy]]* [[Science]]* [[Semblance]]||* [[Speech]]* [[Structure]]* [[Subject]]* [[Treatment]]
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