Abstract
Yet (Freud) admirably abides by his sense that the doctor plays not an enchanted role, but one more hidden … that of a presence-absence over and against which some ancient drama, some profoundly forgotten event, real or imaginary, comes again to take form and expression, truth and actuality. The doctor, therefore, would be there not as himself but in the place of another. By his presence alone he plays the role of another, is other, and is the other before becoming an other.