The Desire of the Analyst and the American Repression of Psychoanalysis

Samuels, Robert

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Robert Samuels⁴

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This chapter looks at Mitchell Wilson’s The Analyst’s Desire in order to show how a contemporary psychoanalyst misunderstands Freud’s and Lacan’s basic insights. In stressing the role played by the analyst’s desire, Wilson reveals why so many analysts resist the analytic process itself. What is so instructive about this work is that is demonstrates why and how psychoanalysis can be repressed within psychoanalysis.

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Samuels, R. (2022). The Desire of the Analyst and the American Repression of Psychoanalysis. In: (Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13327-5_5

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