The Analyst’s Desire

Download or read book The Analyst’s Desire written by Mitchell Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic interpretation by using a comparative method that engages different psychoanalytic traditions: Lacanian, Bionian, Kleinian, Contemporary Freudian. Investigating crucial questions Wilson asks: What is the nature of the psychoanalytic process? How are desire and counter-transference linked? What is the relationship between desire, analytic action, and psychoanalytic ethics?