The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice
Book Details
- Publisher : Bloomsbury
- Published : September 2021
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 264
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97860
- ISBN 13 : 9781501372711
- ISBN 10 : 1501372718
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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?
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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
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Voice Endures
2. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: The Psychoanalyst as Innkeeper
3. On the Threat of Narcissistic Closure: Lacan's Mirror Stage, Cognitive Bias, and Narrative
4. The Analyst's Desire and the Analyst's Resistance
5. “Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth”: Lack and the Analyst's Attitude
6. The Analyst as Listening-Accompanist: Desire in Bion and Lacan
7. Desire and Responsibility: The Ethics of Countertransference Experience
8. The Ethical Foundation of Analytic Action
9. The Proleptic Unconscious and the Exemplary Moment in Psychoanalysis
10. “And Let Me Go On”: Desire and the Ending of Analysis
References
Index
About the Author(s)
Mitchell Wilson is a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA. While in medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, he obtained a postgraduate degree in English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied the early English novel and Lacanian theory. He has been a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, and has served on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of JAPA.
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