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To offer refuge is to make space for the word of the other and their symptom, no matter how disturbing it may be, and to support this subjectivating word on the institutional stage. If we refuse it, we end up with the “encampment of the world”. If we accept it as part of a clinic of transference, we bear witness to a reciprocal position of desire, one that is mutually subjectivating. The clinic is the refuge for a passing desire, a desire for passage…