No. 4 (2002): What is expected of a psychoanalyst?

The question "What is expected of a psychoanalyst?" compels psychoanalysis to confront the ethical premises of its praxis. The emergence of an analyst does not stem from a bureaucratic investiture or pre-established guarantees of knowledge; rather, it arises from the analytic act and the subjective destitution that occurs at the conclusion of an analysis. By moving away from the illusion of the "One" and the comfort of unifying ideals, the practice of psychoanalysis is anchored in the logic of otherness and the "not-all" (*pas-tout*). This demands a subject capable of enduring the position of "cause of desire" and confronting the incompleteness—the *Real*—that language perpetually circles around but never fully captures.

This fourth volume of the journal *Stylus*—a publication of the Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field (AFCL)—is dedicated to the theme "What is expected of a psychoanalyst?" It brings together essays, clinical interventions, and testimonies that document the creation and development of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Lacanian Field. Through reflections on the transmission of psychoanalysis, the *passe* (the procedure for the passage from analysand to analyst), the analyst’s desire, the notion of *supplence* (supplementation), and the impasses encountered in the direction of the cure—covering topics ranging from the approach to psychoses and interventions with premature infants to a historical revisiting of Ferenczi—this edition articulates a collective logic. This logic is founded upon shared elaboration, conceptual rigor, and the maintenance of a practice that does not retreat in the face of the "impossible" that serves as its cause.

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Table of Contents

Editorial
5 – Kátia Botelho de Carvalho

School, Training, and Transmission
9 – Antonio Quinet: Otherness, Analysis, and the School
18 – Nina Virgínia de A. Leite: What Kind of School?
24 – Ângela Mucida: A Necessary School
33 – Bárbara Guatimosim: Around the Cause
42 – Clarice Gatto: The Transmission of an Experience

The Analyst’s Desire and the Act
55 – Mauro Mendes Dias: What Is Expected of a Psychoanalyst Today?
60 – Eliane Z. Schermann: The School: The Analyst’s Desire and the Drift of the Drive
68 – Didier Castanet: On the Efficiency of the Act and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire
75 – Ângela Diniz Costa: The Analyst’s Desire and the *objet petit a*

Direction of the Analysis
85 – Christian Ingo L. Dunker: On the Notion of *suppléance* (Substitution/Supplementation) in Psychoanalytic Treatment
93 – Delma Mª. Fonseca Gonçalves: Ferenczi – A History That Must Be Remembered
101 – Daniela S. Chatelard: The Psychoanalyst’s Desire in Clinical Work with Premature Infants

Interview
On the Founding of the School
109 – Bernard Nominé
111 – Ana Martinez
112 – Ângela Mucida
114 – Antonio Quinet
116 – Didier Castanet
119 – Dominique Fingermann
119 – Elisabeth Saporiti

Reviews
125 – Ângela Mucida: Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry with Children
128 – Lúcia Bernardes: Revisiting Style

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Editorial Team
Kátia Botelho de Carvalho (Coordinator)
Ângela Diniz Costa
Clara Lúcia Inem
Delma Mª. Fonseca Gonçalves
Gilberto Gênova Gobbato
Jairo Gerbase
Bárbara Guatimosim (Contributor)