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The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice

Author(s) : Mitchell Wilson

Reviews and Endorsements

It was an honor to read Mitchell Wilson's book, written in a beautifully clear language and full of engaging and trenchant moments drawn from analytic encounters and theoretical reflections. This book is for the psychoanalysts of the world as well as a larger audience, especially as it explores fundamental questions of language, exchange, counter-transference, and the key question of how a sense of an open futurity may come about.
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and author

In this compellingly readable work, Mitchell Wilson combines brilliant erudition, incisive personal sensitivity, and gorgeous writing to call to life a strong reading of the analysts own desire, desire born in inevitable lack, as shaping the psychoanalytic venture. Discerning what is of value while dispelling the rigidities and obscurities of much prior anglophone and francophone analytic literature, Wilson opens fresh vistas into the experience, action, and ethics of analytic, and thus implicitly the human, engagement. Combining the immediacy of personal memoir and clinical unfoldings brought to life with profound questioning, this engaging volume is like a docents tour by a significant leader in contemporary analytic thought. Start reading it; you wont stop.
Warren S. Poland, MD, Psychoanalyst and author

Wilson's enthusiastic and challenging Lacanian perspective on the eclectic field of contemporary psychoanalysis illuminates what is inspiring as well as daunting in our daily practiceconfronting our own desireand so sheds new light on the inevitable dialectic between missing and meeting that is the creative condition of our work. Unbeholden to orthodoxy, The Analysts Desire interweaves practical reflections on the analysts participation with critical analysis of current theory. A pleasure to read, the writers voiceas fresh and honest as it is wise and eruditematches the quality of his thinking.
Jessica Benjamin, author