How Does Analysis Work?

Berjanet Jazani gathers short, anonymous accounts written by people at different points in Lacanian analysis, from beginning analysands to those already training and practising. Each account fixes on a single moment where an intervention landed: a cut, a question, a play on words, a silence that shifted something. Set side by side, the accounts show interpretation as it actually operates in the consulting room rather than as it is described in theory.

The collection ranges across classical technique and more unexpected registers, including humour and staging, and it lets the reader watch change arrive without smoothing over the meanings and non-meanings that carry it. Jazani frames the material to correct familiar misreadings of how Lacanian work proceeds. For a practising clinician, the result is a close view of what an intervention does to an analysand, and of the variety of forms a workable interpretation can take across very different cases.