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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 to the Analyst==
The [[analyst]] is therefore not only a [[subject supposed to know]] but also a "[[subject]] supposed to [[desire]]."
Thus the phrase "the [[analyst]]'s [[desire]]" does not refer to the real [[desire]] in the [[analyst]]'s [[psyche]], but to the [[desire]] which the [[analysand]] attributes to 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 [[fundamental fantasy]] emerges in the [[transference]].
==A desire proper Desire Proper to the analystAnalyst==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 [[treatment]].
===What It Is Not===
This is easier to define negatively than positively.
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>
===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>
How is it that the [[analyst]] comes to be guided by the [[desire]] which is proper to his function?
===Training===
According to [[Lacan]], this can only occur by means of a [[training analysis]].
==See Also==
{{See}}* [[Analysand]]* [[Analyst]]||* [[Desire]]* [[Identification]]||* [[Subject supposed to know]]* [[Training]]||* [[Transference]]* [[Treatment]]{{Also}}
==References==
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