Against Understanding: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key, Volume 2, the companion to Volume 1, is a collection of published papers, lectures and interviews by American Lacanian psychoanalyst, Bruce Fink, M.D., from 1999-2011. Like its Volume 1 predecessor, Volume 2 introduces an English-speaking audience to Lacanian psychoanalysis, making many of its ideas accessible while still retaining their complexity and nuance. Speaking to the title of the book, Against Understanding, Lacan recommends that therapists remain perpetually curious and avoid the imposition of their own conclusions: “Because they understand a lot of things, analysts on the whole imagine that to understand is an end in itself, and that it can only be ‘a happy end.’ The example of physics may show them, however, that the most impressive successes do not require that one know where one is going” (p. x). “In a Lacanian Key” invokes the idea that Lacan's psychoanalysis is in a different “musical key” than that of other analytic innovators.