#redirect 1958 (51 pp.)-LA DIRECTION DE LA CURE ET LES PRINCIPES DE SON POUVOIR (THE DIRECTION OF THE TREATMENT AND THE PRINCIPLES OF ITS POWER) 1961 Nowhere else did [[Lacan]] try as hard to [[communicate]] to [[analysts]] coming from different perspectives what constitutes the [[ethics]], the [[concepts]], and the inter�rogations of his [[practice]]. He made an effort to situate himself in the [[global]] field of [[psychoanalytic]] [[thinking]] (there was even a [[bibliography]]), he revealed his [[desire]] for pedagogical clarity, mentioning [[concrete]] problems and numer�ous examples. Paradoxically, this address, which was meant for a limited [[public]] (the audience of the International Colloquium in Royaumont, orga�nized by the [[S.F.P]].) seems to me to be a [[good]] introduction (for the general public) to his thinking of the [[time]]. The [[dream]] of the Beautiful Butcher's Wife ([[Freud]]) allows him to define [[hysterical]] desire as the [[model]] of [[human]] desire (the [[subject]]'s desire is the desire of the [[Other]]), and desire as "[[metonymy]] of the [[lack]]-to-be" whose dream would be [[metaphor]]. Elsewhere, relatively simple formulations discuss the [[unconscious]] as a [[structure]] of [[signifiers]] and ana�lyze [[fantasy]] or primary [[identification]], here based on the [[mother]]'s [[Demand]]. The [[text]] is violently polemical: [[analytic]] [[literature]] is assimilated to "the pile of dung from the Augean stables" in front of which [[Leonardo]]'s [[St John]] stands with his finger raised. Mistakes are always attributed to [[others]] while the [[author]] claims "to hear and [[understand]]" and not "to auscultate": "My [[listening]] is one of [[understanding]] [entendement]." The suggested solutions The WorkJ of Jlcqueillcan 111 are then discussed, whether it is a matter of [[transference]], or [[interpretation]], or of the ultimate rule: "One must take desire literal/yo " However, many of the problems that are raised are important ones: the fact that Freud did not nec�essarily "[[cure]]" his [[patients]] while making "the discoveries on which we live"; the [[patient]]'s [[acting-out]], linked to the [[analyst]]'s passage a /' [[acte]]; the analyst's desire producing in the subject an effect in which "that which is not [[forbidden]] can become mandatory"; the [[money]] given in [[exchange]] for a "[[nothing]]" that the analyst does not even give. Ultimately, who is the analyst? He is the one who must "pay with [[words]]," "pay with his person" and "with that which is essential in his most intimate judgment, in [[order]] to intervene in an [[action]] that goes to the heart of [[being]]. " * [[The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power]]
