ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers a few elements developed by his friend Paola Mieli from the Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association in New York. She confirms that what is currently going on within the psychoanalytic framework in the USA is that which always happens when one tries to “pose” selection criteria that obviously have nothing to do with psychoanalysis. The analyst finds himself intimately linked to that which brings him back to his desire. The analyst’s desire, or the “desire of the analyst”, is more a function than anything else, a function in the sense that is closest to that which Frege calls a function in mathematics. The desire analyste is a function founded on a certain type of relation between the subject’s identifications and his objects. It is a very important and complicated point, since the analyst’s desire is not something that refers to everyone’s desire.
