The Analyst's Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice - Paperback

by Mitchell Wilson (Author), Esther Rashkin (Editor), Mari Ruti (Editor)

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?