The Analyst's Desire The EthicalFoundation of Clinical Practice : The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice

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? Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Epigraph 8 Contents 10 Preface 12 Acknowledgments 25 1 The Voice Endures 28 2 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: The Psychoanalyst as Innkeeper 42 3 On the Threat of Narcissistic Closure: Lacan’s Mirror Stage, Cognitive Bias, and Narrative 58 4 The Analyst’s Desire and the Analyst’s Resistance 76 5 “Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth”: Lack and the Analyst’s Attitude 102 6 The Analyst as Listening-Accompanist: Desire in Bion and Lacan 122 7 Desire and Responsibility: The Ethics of Countertransference Experience 146 8 The Ethical Foundation of Analytic Action 182 9 The Proleptic Unconscious and the Exemplary Moment in Psychoanalysis 198 10 “And Let Me Go On”: Desire and the Ending of Analysis 222 References 238 Index 250 "A multi-faceted theoretical exploration of desire in psychoanalytic studies"-- Provided by publisher