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[[Lacan]] rejects the idea of [[progress]] because it is based on a linear unidirectional concept of [[time]], and because it implies the possibility of [[synthesis]].  [[Lacan]] rejects other related concepts such as that of a unilinear sequence of [[phase]]s of psychosexual [[development]].

There is one sense, however, in which [[Lacan]] does speak of [[progress]]: the [[progress]] in [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]].   [[Treatment]] is a process which has a beginning and an [[end of analysis|end]]. When the [[treatment]] is moving and not 'stuck', we may speak of [[progress]].   Indeed, [[psychoanalytic treatment ]] may be described as "a progress towards truth."<ref>{{E}} p. 253</ref>