Status Updates From The Lacanian Subject: Betwe...

“For by responding to the analysand’s demand for advice and interpretation, for “understanding” of his or her symptoms, the analyst gives what he has (“knowledge”) instead of what he doesn’t have (lack, in other words desire), and encourages the analysand to demand rather than desire, to remain alienated rather than separate.”
Goal of analysis being not truth but meaning(meaninglessness),via metaphor