ABSTRACT
The direction of the treatment is something quite different. First of all, it consists in making the subject apply the analytic rule, that is, the directives whose presence cannot be ignored in the principle of what is called ‘the analytic situation’, on the pretext that the subject would apply them perfectly well without thinking about it. Genetic research and direct observation are far from being cut off from properly analytic realities. A theory of analysis is conceived which, unlike the delicate articulation of Freud’s analysis, reduces the source of symptoms to fear. The importance of preserving the place of desire in the direction of treatment necessitates that one should orientate this place in relation to the effects of demand, which alone are at present conceived as the principle of the power of the treatment.
