The book by philosopher and psychoanalyst Alexander Smulyansky is devoted to the study of the connection between the metaphor of the Father and the instance of “the desire of the analyst.” Jacques Lacan, who conducted such research in the mid-20th century, did not present its results due to his expulsion from the International Psychoanalytic Society in 1963 and deprivation of the right to train analysts. The never-drawn connection between the father’s metaphor and the instance of “the desire of the analyst” led to the fact that the analytical discourse, soon after Lacan’s death, underwent a merger with the discourse of the university, in which this desire took an official place as one of the regulators of the analyst’s behavior in sessions, and the affected Lacan removed the question of his untamed and unexplored sources from the agenda. The purpose of the book is to return to this issue, to trace the origin of the analyst’s desire from Freud’s desire and to explore on this basis the reasons for the emergence of psychoanalytic practice, while simultaneously justifying the inevitability of its ongoing internal conflicts. The publication is addressed to psychologists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, and cultural researchers.