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In ''[[Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]'' [1937], [[Freud]] asks:
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In ''[[Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]'', [[Freud]] posits the following question:
 
 
 
 
In ''[[Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]'', [[Freud]] asks:
 
  
 
<blockquote>Is there such a thing as a natural end to an analysis?<ref>{{F}} ''[[Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]''. 1937. [[SE]] XXIII p.209-253</ref> </blockquote>
 
<blockquote>Is there such a thing as a natural end to an analysis?<ref>{{F}} ''[[Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]''. 1937. [[SE]] XXIII p.209-253</ref> </blockquote>

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Sigmund Freud

In Analysis Terminable and Interminable, Freud posits the following question:

Is there such a thing as a natural end to an analysis?[1]


Freud discusses the question of whether it is ever possible to conclude an analysis, or whether all analyses are necessarily incomplete.

Is analysis terminable? How, and in what sense?