The presenter posits that the two most influential analsyts since Freud were Donald Winnicott and Jacques Lacan. While Winnicott introduced the comic tradition into psychoanalysis, Lacan sustained Freud’s tragic/ironic vision. Their views of the role of the analyst, the aims of treatment and the nature of subjectivity will be explored. A clinical illustration of a patient whose treatment and the nature of subjectivity will be explored. A clinical illustration of a patient whose treatment relied on both traditions is offered. While their perspectives have been seen as incompatible, the author encourages analysts to think in the space between “Winnicott, the analyst of devotion and, Lacan the analyst of desire.”
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