Mitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic interpretation by using a comparative method that engages different ps

"A multi-faceted theoretical exploration of desire in psychoanalytic studies"--

Freud's invention of psychoanalysis was based on his own desire to know something about the unconscious, but what have been the effects of this original desire

Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What can this desire contribute to a vital cultural criticism? In Desire of the Analysts, these and other questions

This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept