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There is no other resistance to analysis than that of the analyst himself.
Jacques Lacan is among the most original thinkers within psychoanalytic tradition and this despite the fact that he was officially expelled from the International Psychoanalytic Association.1 Only he was sufficiently concerned with the scientific status of psychoanalysis to bravely suggest certain modifications to fundamental theoretical tenets.2 He (1) limited psychoanalytic theory to the role of the Freudian unconscious in structuring the psychoanalytic situation; (2) declared the core of psychoanalysis to concern the Oedipal structure; (3) denied the possibility of verifying events for the Oedipal hypothesis