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The term "[[dialectic]]" originated with the Greeks, for whom it denoted (among other things) a discursive procedure in which an opponent in a debate is questioned in such a way as to bring out the contradictions in his [[discourse]].
This is the tactic which [[Plato]] ascribes to [[Socrates]], who is shown as beginning most dialogues by first reducing his interlocutor to a state of confusion and [[helplessness]].
==Psychoanalytic Treatment==
==Progression Toward Truth==
Using the [[Dora]] case to illustrate his point, [[Lacan]] shows how [[psychoanalytic treatment]] [[progress]]es towards [[truth]] by a series of [[dialectical]] reversals.<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Intervention sur le transfert]]", in {{EEc}} pp. 215-26 ["[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Intervention on the Transference]]", trans. Jacqueline Rose, in Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose (eds), ''Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the École Freudienne'', London: Macmillan, 1982 [1951a]. pp. 61-73</ref>
==''Aufhebung''==
