ABSTRACT
According to Lacan's definition of desire, the psychoanalyst's desire is situated in the realm of the Other. Desire is, in other words, necessarily mediated by the Other. The idea that the analyst supports the function of the other as implies that the analytic process will be dominated by the dialectics of recognition. The analyst's narcissism is thus an obstacle that prevents him from questioning his own desire, which is the effect of a resistance in the analytic sense of the term, since it is precisely the ego that resists. Lacan himself only gives a negative meaning to countertransference. It is in relation to Sigmund Freud himself that he used it in a critical way. One cannot claim that the end of analysis is marked by an effect that is as spontaneous as the initial triggering of the transference. In no other aspect of treatment is the analyst's action so sought-after as it is in this endgame.
