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Lacan proposed doing just that more than half a century ago, when he dedicated an entire year of his seminar to define the psychoanalytic act. He did it during his 15th seminar, which ended in the midst of the noise caused by the events of May 1968. But while many of us have adopted his proposal and, to some extent, tend to talk about the psychoanalytic act in a way that includes and exceeds what Freud and most analysts understand by the word interpretation, we still use this term, despite having largely changed and extended its meaning—so much so that, instead of entitling this seminar The Structure of the Analytic Acts, I chose the title, Structure of Interpretations.
Something similar occurs with the term surgery, whose Greek root χειρουργία (kheirourgía) defines that activity as an activity done by hand. At present there are medical procedures that when that term was coined were unthinkable―such as, for example, the gamma knife (again with the knives!) used for the treatment of certain brain tumors―and although these medical procedures are operations carried out using complex devices commanded by computer using no hand, they are nevertheless considered surgical interventions. Perhaps later I will pick up the comparison between analyst and surgeon introduced by Freud and used by Lacan as well. For the moment, I will persevere in misusing the bad term interpretation.
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