Is psychoanalysis flirtation?

Post-Modernist theory, proves the truth of the Lacanian dictum that, in effect, we only learn about ourselves through others; that we only get going when the analyst interprets our dreams so as to expose as illusory the tactics – the symptoms and obsessions – by which we kid ourselves we have already arrived at where we wanted to be

But is psychoanalysis flirtation, as Adam Phillips has suggested? Even when not sexually charged, psychoanalysis like flirtation, in its playing out  stops short of seduction, sex and love, to create a space in which to discover what we are doing by talking about the imagined fulfilment of our wishes to someone else.