ABSTRACT
Michael Eigen puts Jacques Lacan's area of faith into the concept of "Symbolic Order". In discussing the three authors, Eigen highlights how the three include the discussion of the dimension of faith in their works and preoccupy themselves also with the question of true and false in the individual and in psychoanalysis itself. Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion believe in the necessity of truth; both have faith in the truth and seek the authentic. For Lacan, the truth is in the Real and the meaning will only be acquired with the Symbolic order and with language, with the acceptance of the basic gap. The three authors converge to a central theme: the creative experience, involving mystery, paradox, and faith expressed through dialectic thought. Eigen's article touches on the fundamental points of contemporary psychoanalytic technique, particularly in the technical attitude of the analyst and in the objectives of psychoanalysis.
