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==Jacques Lacan==The phrase the "[[desire of the analyst]]" is an ambiguous one that seems to oscillate in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]] between two meanings:

==A Desire Attributed ="Analyst Supposed to the AnalystKnow"===As well as attributing In [[knowledgepsychoanalytic treatment]] to , the [[analyst]], so also the [[analysand]] attributes [[desire]] to the [[analyst]](as well as [[knowledge]]).

The [[analyst]] is therefore not only a "'''[[subject supposed to know|subject supposed to desire]] but also '''" (as well as a "[[subject]] supposed to [[desireknow]]")."

Thus the phrase "the [[desire of the analyst]]'s " refers to the [[desire]]" does not refer to that the real [[desireanalysand]] in attributes to the [[analyst]]'s rather to the actual [[psychedesire]], but to in the [[desiremind]] or [[psyche]] which of the [[analysandanalyst]] attributes to him.

====Psychoanalytic Treatment====The task of the [[analyst]] throughout the [[treatment]] is to make it impossible for the [[analysand]] to be sure that he knows what the [[analyst]] wants from him; the [[analyst]] must make sure that his [[desire ]] "remains an x" for the [[analysand]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 274</ref>

In this way the [[analyst]]'s supposed [[desire]] becomes the [[treatment|driving force ]] of the [[analytic]] [[process]], since it keeps the [[analysand]] working, trying to discover what the [[analyst]] wants from him.

By presenting the [[analysand]] with an enigmatic [[desire]], the [[analyst]] occupies the position of the [[Other]], of whom the [[subject]] asks "'''[[Che vuoi?]]''' " ("What do you want from me?"), with the result that the [[subject]]'s [[fantasy|fundamental fantasy]] emerges in the [[transference]].

==A =Desire Proper to the Analyst===The other sense of the phrase the "[[desire of the analyst]]" refers to the [[desire]] which must animate the [[analyst]] in the way he directs the [[treatment]].

===What It Is Not=Definition====

It is certainly not a [[desire]] for the "impossible".<ref>{{S7}} p. 300</ref>

===Truth of Desire===Rather than [[identification]], the [[analyst]] [[desire]]s that the [[analysand]]'s own unique [[truth]] emerge in the [[treatment]], a [[truth]] that is absolutely different to that of the [[analyst]]; the [[analyst]]'s [[desire]] is thus "a desire to obtain absolute difference."<ref>{{S11}} p.276</ref>

====Ethics====It is in the sense of a "a '''[[Desire of the analyst|desire]] proper to the [[analyst]]'''" that [[Lacan]] wishes to locate the question of the [[analyst]]'s [[desire]] at the heart of the [[ethics ]] of [[psychoanalysis]].

====Training====According to [[Lacan]], this can only occur by means of a [[training|training analysis]].

The essential requirement, the condition ''sine qua non'' for becoming an [[analyst]], is to undergo [[treatment|analytic]] [[treatment]] oneself.

In the course of this [[treatment]] there will be a mutation in the economy of [[desire]] in the [[analyst]]|analyst-to-be]]; his [[desire]] will be [[structure|restructured]], reorganised[[structure|reorganized]].<ref>{{S8}} p.221-2</ref>