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The state of [[helplessness]] is linked to the [[infant]]'s initial [[power]]lessness in the face of its [[need]]s.

If this seems to present a particularly ascetic view of [[psychoanalytic treatment]], this is exactly how [[Lacan]] wishes it to be seen; [[psychoanalysis]] is, in [[Lacan]]'s words, a "long subjective acesis."<ref>{{E}} p.105</ref>

==See Also==

# Freud, Sigmund. (1925). Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety. SE, 20: 87-172.

# ——. (1950c [1895]). Project for a scientific psychology. SE, 1: 281-387.