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=====Jacques Lacan=====
The term "[[desire of the analyst]]" is ambiguous, and oscillates between two [[meanings ]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]].
=====Desire ''Attributed'' to the Analyst=====
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 [[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.
<blockquote>"The [[desire]] of the [[analyst]] is ultimately that which operates in [[psychoanalysis]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 854</ref></blockquote>
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]].
====Definition====
It is certainly not a [[desire]] for the "impossible".<ref>{{S7}} p. 300</ref>
Nor is it a [[desire]] to "do [[good]]" or "to [[cure]]"; on the contrary, it is "a non-desire to cure."<ref>{{S7}} p. 218</ref>
====Identification====
<blockquote>"The [[analyst]]'s [[desire]] . . . tends in a direction that is the exact opposite of [[identification]]."<ref>{{S11}} p. 274</ref></blockquote>
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====
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]], [[structure|reorganized]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 221-2</ref>
Only if this happens will he be able to function properly as an [[analyst]].
