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==Definition==
The literal meaning of this [[Greek]] term is '''disappearance'''.
It was first introduced into [[psychoanalysis]] by [[Ernest Jones]], who uses it to mean "the [[disappearance]] of [[sexual]] [[desire]]."<ref>Jones, 1927</ref>
For [[Lacan]], [[aphanisis]] does not mean the [[disappearance]] of [[desire]], but the [[disappearance]] of the [[subject]].<ref>{{S11}} 208</ref>
The [[aphanisis]] of the [[subject]] is the [[fading ]] of the [[subject]], the fundamental [[division]] - or [[split]] - of the subject which institutes the [[dialectic]] of [[desire]].<ref>{{S11}} p.221</ref>
Far from the [[disappearance]] of [[desire]] being the [[object]] of [[fear]], it is precisely what the [[neurotic]] aims at; the [[neurotic]] attempts to shield himself from his [[desire]], to put it aside.<ref>{{S8}} p.271</ref>
