ABSTRACT
This chapter first focuses on some facets of the origin of the clinical/applied division in Freud's "Leonardo" essay. It then returns to Chasseguet-Smirgel's text, which leans on, and then elaborates and extends upon the epistemological framework established in "Leonardo". By linking the two texts, the chapter demonstrates how the field of applied analysis has emerged as part of an ongoing, and nostalgic, search for a lost theorized object. It also demonstrates how this search can in turn lead to a regressive, nostalgically-tinged, view of culture and a conservative normativization of the clinical field. The argument that are developed in the chapter essentially takes that reminder and applies it to "Leonardo", the object re-found when Freud founded applied psychoanalysis in 1910. The chapter contrasts some of the "findings" of the "Leonardo" essay with some earlier ones from "Dora".
