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→Jacques Lacan
No one has ever said that the [[analyst]] should never have feelings towards his [[patient]].
But he must know not only not to give into them, to keep them in their place, but also how to make adequate use of them in his technique.<ref>{{SlS1}} p.32</ref>
If [[countertransference]] is condemned by [[Lacan]], then, it is because he defines it not in terms of affects felt by the [[analyst]], but as the [[analyst]]'s failure to use those affects appropriately.
When speaking of the [[analyst]]'s position it is both misleading and unnecessary to use the term [[countertransference]]; it is sufficient to speak of the different ways in which the [[analyst]] and [[analysand]] are implicated in the [[transference]] <ref>{{S8}} p.233</ref>.
"The [[transference]] is a phenomenon in which [[subject]] and psycho-analyst are both included. To divide it in terms of [[transference]] and [[counter-transference]] . . . is never more than a way of avoiding the essence of the matter."<ref>{{SllS11}} p.231</ref>.
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