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The unpredictable, unfathomable point of decision

From Bruce Fink’s Miss-ing: Psychoanalysis 2.0, loc 3496:

it is no easy matter to interest people in talk therapy, and even once they are in it to guide them to a point—an unpredictable, unfathomable point—where they “decide” to do something for themselves (see Whitaker, 2010, p. 125), find the will to do something to get out of what they’ve spent decades getting into […] And I would add that this decision to be something other than an object or victim is not made once and for all, but must be made again and again as each unpleasant memory is unearthed, as each unsavory wish and “filthy enjoyment” is faced.

From Bruce Fink’s Lacanian Subject, loc 5683:

Predictably enough, the second face of the Lacanian subject appears in the overcoming of that fixation, the reconfiguring or traversing of fantasy, and the shifting of the way in which one gets one’s kicks or obtains jouissance: that is, the face of subjectivization, a process of making “one’s own” something that was formerly alien.

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