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What Do Analysts Want?
DOI:10.1080/07351690.2026.2619397.png)
Abstract
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The author situates the article itself as other, highlighting the struggle to bring the spatially imagined depth of experience into the linear procession of language. Within this dynamic, she introduces subliminal shapes and images as she coaxes into relief various bits of psychoanalytic life. Among these fragments, we find Stanislavski's magic gift to actors, the mystery of the human olfactory function, and the mother chimpanzee's mind within us, demanding to be heard, all signposts in a quest to find an alive and encompassing metaphor for what it is the analyst wants.
Keywords:
Metaphor
analytic function
human olfaction
COVID-19
Stanislovsky method
Frances Tustin

