Transference
Lacan considered that 'the transference...is formulated at first, in the discourse of the patient, as demand'. Through such demands, 'the whole past opens up right down to early infancy. The subject has never done anything other than demand, he could not have survived otherwise, and...regression shows nothing other than a return to the present of signifiers used in demands'. He also stressed 'the terrible temptation that must face the analyst to respond however little to demand', even if only 'in the form of the demand to cure'.
François Roustang however 'challenges this Lacanian practice...and suggests that the demand of transference love is not necessarily a demand for the end of the analysis, but a demand for the analyst to move his or her position'.
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