The Paradox of Devination

Lacan: You've abdicated your choice to some divination of the analyst, whose importance you have exaggerated out of all proportion. Devination is an important word here, not just in the verb form, but in the adjectival form as well. This is the treatment of the other as though there's some kind of fucking God. They are a divine being, omniscient, omnipotent, can read your mind and tell you what it is you need,. What ails you and what you need. Lacan wouldn't leave his audience with this version of the analyst at the end of seminar 11. It would be more appropriate if you felt like it, and if the opportunity