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==Psychoanalytic Treatment==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.219</ref></blockquote> ===Various formulationsAim of Psychoanalytic Treatment===The [[end of analysis|''end'' of analysis]] must be distinguished from the [[end of analysis|''aim'' of psychoanalytic treatment]]. The [[end of analysis|aim of psychoanalytic treatment]] is to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate the [[truth]] about his [[desire]]. Any [[Lacananalysis]] conceives , however incomplete, may be regarded as successful when it achieves this aim. The question of the [[end of analysis]] is therefore something more than whether a course of [[analytic treatment]] has or has not achieved its aim; it is a question of whether or not the [[treatment]] has reached its logical end-point. ==End of Analysis==[[Lacan]] conceives of this end-point in various ways.
:1. In the early 1950s, [[Lacan]] describes the [[end of analysis]] as "the advent of a true [[speech]] and the realization by the [[subject]] of his [[history]]" -- that is, as coming to terms with one's own [[death|mortality]].<ref>{{E}} p.88</ref>
The [[analyst]] is reduced -- from the position of the [[subject-supposed-to-know]] -- to a mere [[surplus]], a [[objet petit a]], the [[cause]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[desire]].
==Passage from Analysand to Analyst==
For [[Lacan]], the [[end of analysis]] is also the passage from [[analysand]] to [[analyst]] -- for all [[psychoanalysts]] must undergo [[analytic treatment]] from beginning to end before being allowed to practice as [[analysts]].
===Misconceptions===
====Identification with the Analyst====
[[Lacan]] criticizes those [[psychoanalysts]] who describe the [[end of analysis]] in terms of [[identification]] with the [[analyst]].
====Transference====
[[Lacan]] also criticizes those [[psychoanalysts]] who describe the [[end of analysis]] in terms of "liquidation" of the [[transference]].
====Other Misconceptions====
The [[end of analysis]] does not involve:
For [[Lacan]], [[analysis]] is not essentially a therapeutic process but rather a search for [[truth]] -- and the [[truth]] is not always beneficial.<ref>{{S17}} p.122</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Desire of the analyst]]
* [[End of analysis]]
* [[Resistance]]
* [[Transference]]
==References==
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[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Treatment]]
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