The Analyst’s Desire

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.

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