Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156916208X311656 Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 39 (2008) 111–139 www.brill.nl/jpp pheno menol ogical p s y c h ology jour nal of Book Reviews Fink, B. (2007). Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners . New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 301 pp., ISBN 978-0-393-70508-9, $35.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by Katerina Daniel, Department of Clinical Psychology, Duquesne University Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory has often been left out of clinical practice in domi- nant psychoanalytic milieu, because his work is hard to read. Lacan’s oeuvre, how- ever, is rich, rigorous, and useful