In a Lacanian sense, the role of the analyst is to be filled up with the images and ideas of the patient. https://nosubject.com/Discourse_of_the_analyst https:

In a Lacanian sense, the role of the analyst is to be filled up with the images and ideas of the patient. https://nosubject.com/Discourse_of_the_analyst https://nosubject.com/Discourse_of_the_analyst Some may find the Greek term "kenosis" interesting, meaning "emptying". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis I agree that SSC being separate from his psychiatry is pretty important. I like SSC, and at the same time I would find it difficult to go to therapy knowing Scott is behind SSC. It would cause me to fixate on obsessional traits in myself, knowing that he is predisposed to the same thing.