ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is to be, if nothing else, a fundamental re-description of human nature. A description of what it is that we value and how we go about pursuing our goals, with its unerring emphasis on what we shy away from, on what we are not as yet aware of, on that which we seek to sustain as unspeakable. In this book, the author concludes with a story from a young woman, one of the people who at that time was coming to see for analysis, and it concerns where we began: that Freud Museum (and the University of East London) conference on “Football Passions”. It so happened that in her kitchen she had tacked up a poster, a flyer advertising the event. The psychoanalytic idea is that the desire that is realised or staged in fantasy is not straightforwardly of the author's own. Rather it is the other’s desire.
