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=====Jacques Lacan=====The phrase the term "[[desire of the analyst]]" is an ambiguous one that seems to oscillate , and oscillates between two [[meanings]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] between two meanings:.

==A ===Desire ''Attributed '' to the Analyst=====As well as attributing In the first [[sense]] of the term, the "[[knowledgedesire of the analyst]] " refers to the [[analystdesire]], so also 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 not only a "'''[[subject supposed to know|subject supposed to desire]] but also '''" (as well as a "[[subject]] supposed to [[desireknow]]")."

Thus =====Desire ''Proper'' to the Analyst=====In the second sense of the term, the phrase "the [[desire of the analyst]]'s [[desire]]" does not refer refers to the real ''actual'' [[desire]] in of the [[analyst]]'s [[psyche]], but to which animates the [[desireanalyst]] which in the way he directs the [[analysandtreatment]] attributes to him.

=====Psychoanalytic Treatment=====The task of the [[analyst]] throughout the In [[psychoanalytic 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>

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.

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]]. ==A Desire Proper to the Analyst==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=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>

===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>

====Ethics====It is in the sense of a "a '''[[Desire of the analyst|desire]] proper to the [[analyst]]'''" that [[Lacan]] wishes to locate the question of the [[analyst]]'s [[desire]] at the heart of the [[ethics ]] of [[psychoanalysis]].

====Training====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|training analysis]].

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]], reorganised[[structure|reorganized]].<ref>{{S8}} p.221-2</ref>