Before revision: For the aim of the talking cure—psychoanalysis—is precisely to lead the analysand or patient to uncover the truth about their desire, but this is only possible if that desire is articulated, or spoken.Fink, Bruce, The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Princeton University Press, 1996), Lacan said that "it is only once it is formulated, named in the presence of the other, that desire appears in the full sense of the term.
After revision: For the aim of the talking cure—psychoanalysis—is precisely to lead the analysis and or patient to uncover the truth about their desire, but this is only possible if that desire is articulated, or spoken.Fink, Bruce, The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Princeton University Press, 1996), Lacan said that "it is only once it is formulated, named in the presence of the other, that desire appears in the full sense of the term.