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The term "[[desire of the analyst]]" is ambiguous, and oscillates between two meanings in [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]].

In the first sense of the term, the "[[desire of the analyst]]" refers to the [[desire]] that the [[analysand]] ''attributes'' to the [[analyst]] (in addition to [[knowledge]]) in [[psychoanalytic treatment]], rather than the [[desire]] ''proper'' to the [[analyst]] (in his [[mind]] or [[psyche]]).

The [[analyst]] is therefore a "'''[[subject supposed to know|subject supposed to desire]]'''" (as well as a "[[subject supposed to know]]").

In the second sense of the term, the "[[desire of the analyst]]" refers to the ''actual'' [[desire]] of the [[analyst]], which animates the [[analyst]] in the way he directs the [[treatment]].

=====Psychoanalytic Treatment=====

In [[psychoanalytic treatment]]