demand of the Other assumes the function of an object in his phantasy...this prevalence given by the neurotic to demand". Transference Lacan considered that the transference appears in the forms of demands from the patient – demands which he stressed the analyst must resist. Through such demands, he states, "the whole past opens up right down to early infancy. The subject has never done anything other than demand, he could not have survived otherwise, and...regression shows nothing other than a return to the present of signifiers used in demands". François Roustang however has challenged the Lacanian view, arguing that the patient's demand, rather than undermining the analysis, may be a positive attempt to get the analyst to shift their therapeutic stance. See also References Psychoanalytic terminology Jacques Lacan Post-structuralism Structuralism