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 =====Ethical Position=====An [[ethics|ethical position]] is implicit in every way of directing [[psychoanalytic treatment]], whether this is admitted or not by the [[analys]]t.  The [[ethics|ethical position]] of the [[analyst]] is most clearly revealed by the way that he formulates the [[end of analysis|goal of the treatment]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 207</ref>  For example the formulations of [[ego-psychology]] about the [[adaptation]] of the [[ego]] to [[reality]] imply a [[ethics|normative ethics]].<ref>{{S7}} 207</ref>  It is in opposition to this [[ethics|ethical position]] that [[Lacan]] sets out to formulate his own [[ethics|analytic ethic]]. =====Analytic Ethic=====The [[ethics|analytic ethic]] that [[Lacan]] formulates is an [[ethics|ethic]] which relates [[act]]ion to [[desire]].  [[Lacan]] summarises it in the question "Have you acted in conformity with the desire that is in you?"<ref>{{S7}} p.314</ref>.  He contrasts this [[ethics|ethic]] with the "[[ethics|traditional ethics]]"<ref>{{S7}} p. 314</ref> of [[Aristotle]], [[Kant]] and other [[philosophy|moral philosophers]] on several grounds. =====First=====Firstly, traditional ethics revolves around the the concept of the Good, proposing different 'goods' which all compete for the position of the Sover­eign Good.  The psychoanalytic ethic, however, sees the Good as an obstacle in the path of desire; thus in psychoanalysis 'a radical repudiation of a certain ideal of the good is necessary' (S7, 230).  The psychoanalytic ethic rejects all ideals, including ideals of 'happiness' and 'health'; and the fact that ego­psychology has embraced these ideals bars it from claiming to be a form of psychoanalysis (S7, 219).  The desire of the analyst cannot therefore be the desire to 'do good' or 'to cure' (S7, 218).  =====Good and Pleasure=====Secondly, [[ethics|traditional ethics]] has always tended to link the [[ethics|good]] to [[pleasure]]; [[ethics|moral thought]] has "developed along the paths of an essentially hedonistic problematic."<ref>{{S7}} p. 221</ref>  The [[ethics|psychoanalytic ethic]], however, cannot take such an approach because [[treatment|psychoanalytic experience]] has revealed the duplicity of [[pleasure principle|pleasure]]; there is a limit to [[pleasure principle|pleasure]] and, when this is transgressed, [[pleasure principle|pleasure]] becomes [[jouissance|pain]]. ====="Service of Goods"=====Thirdly, [[ethics|traditional ethics]] revolves around "the service of goods"<ref>{{S7}} p. 314</ref> which puts work and a safe, ordered [[existence]] before questions of [[desire]]; it tells people to make their [[desire]]s wait.<ref>{{S7}} p. 315</ref> The [[ethics|psychoanalytic ethic]], on the other hand, forces the [[subject]] to confront the relation between his [[act]]ions and his [[desire]] in [[time|immediacy]] of the [[time|present]].