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==Psychoanalytic TreatmentSigmund Freud==In ''[[Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]'', [[Freud]] asks:<blockquote>"Is there such a [[thing ]] as a [[natural ]] end to an analysis?"<ref>{{F}} ''[[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]''. , 1937. [[SE]] XXIII p.219</ref></blockquote>

==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]]'s answer to this question is that it [[psychoanalytic treatment]] is indeed possible to speak of concluding a [[progress|logical process]] with a beginning and an end-point, designated as the "[[end of analysis]]".

Although not all ===Aim===The [[analyses]] are carried through to their conclusion, [[analytic treatment]] is a logical process which has an end, and [[Lacanof analysis|''end'' of analysis]] designates this end-point by must be distinguished from the term "''[[end End of analysis|aim]]" ([[Fr]]. ''of [[fin d'analysepsychoanalytic treatment]]'').

===Aim of Psychoanalytic Treatment===The [[end of analysis|''end'' aim]] of analysis[[treatment]] must be distinguished from is to lead the [[end of analysis|analysand]] to articulate the '''[[truth]]'aim'' of psychoanalytic treatment[[about]] his or her [[desire]].

The While not all [[end of analysistreatment|aim of psychoanalytic treatmentanalyses]] is are carried through to lead the their [[analysandprogress|conclusion]] to articulate the , any [[truthtreatment|analysis]] about his -- however incomplete -- may be regarded as successful when it achieves this [[desireend of analysis|aim]].

Any The question of the [[end of analysis]], however incomplete, may be regarded as successful when is therefore something more than whether a [[treatment|course]] of [[treatment|analytic treatment]] has or has not achieved its aim; it achieves this aimis a question of whether or not the [[treatment]] has reached its [[logical]] [[End of analysis|end-point]].

The question of the ===Definition===[[end of analysisLacan]] is therefore something more than whether a course conceives of this [[analytic treatment]] has or has not achieved its aim; it is a question End of whether or not the [[treatment]] has reached its logical analysis|end-point]] in various ways.

==End :1. In the early 1950s, [[Lacan]] describes the [[end of Analysis==analysis]] as "the advent of a [[true]] [[speech]] and the realization by the [[Lacansubject]] conceives of this endhis [[history]]" --point in various waysthat is, as coming to [[terms]] with one's own [[death|mortality]].<ref>{{E}} p.88</ref>

:1. In the early 1950s, <blockquote>"The [[Lacansubject]] describes ... begins the [[end of analysis]] as "the advent of a true [[speech]] and the realization by the [[subjectspeaking]] of his [[history]]" -- that isabout himself without speaking to you, as coming or by speaking to terms with one's own you without speaking about himself. When he can [[death|mortalityspeak]]to you about himself, the analysis will be over."<ref>{{EEc}} p.88373, n. 1</ref></blockquote>

:<blockquote>"The 2. In 1960, [[subjectLacan]] ... begins describes the [[end of analysis by speaking about himself without speaking to you]] as a [[state]] of [[anxiety]] and [[anxiety|abandonment]] -- that is, or by speaking to you without speaking about himself. When he can speak to you about himself, the analysis will be over."<ref>{{Ec}} p.373, nas a state of [[helplessness]]. 1</ref></blockquote>

:2. In 1960, [[Lacan]] describes the [[end of analysis]] as a state of [[anxiety]] and [[anxiety|abandonment]] -- that is, as a state of [[helplessness]]. :3. In 1964, [[Lacan]] describes the [[end of analysis]] as the point when the [[analysand]] "traverses the radical [[fantasy]]."<ref>{{S11}} p.273</ref>

===Subjective Destitution=Position of Analysand and Analyst====In general, the [[end of analysis]] involves two fundamental changes in the respective [[discourse|subjective positions]] of

The * the [[end of analysisanalysand]] involves two fundamental changes in -- the respective "[[subjective positions destitution]]" of the [[analysand]], and

* the [[analysandanalyst]] -- the "[[subjective destitutionloss of being]]" ([[French]]: ''[[désêtre]]'') of the [[analysandanalyst]].

* the The [[analyst]] is reduced -- from the "[[loss discourse|position]] of beingthe [[subject-supposed-to-know]] -- to a mere [[surplus]]" (, a [[Frobjet petit a]]. '', the [[désêtrecause]]'') of the [[analystanalysand]]'s [[desire]].

The ====Passage from Analysand to Analyst====For [[analystLacan]] is reduced -- from , the position [[end of analysis]] is also the passage from [[subject-supposed-analysand]] to-know[[analyst]] -- to a mere for all [[surpluspsychoanalysts]], a must undergo [[objet petit aanalytic treatment]], the from beginning to end before [[causebeing]] of the allowed to [[analysandpractice]]'s as [[desireanalysts]].

==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]]. Since [[Lacan]] argues that all [[psychoanalysts]] should have experienced the [[process ]] of [[analytic treatment]] from beginning to end, the [[end of analysis]] is also the passage from [[analysand]] to [[analyst]].  <blockquote>"The true termination of an analysis" is therefore no more and no less than that which "prepares you to become an analyst."<ref>{{S7}} p.303</ref></blockquote>

For [[Lacan]], this erroneous view is based on a misunderstanding of [[transference]] -- as a kind of [[illusion ]] which can be transcended -- which overlooks the [[symbolic]] [[nature ]] of [[transference]] -- as an essential [[structure]] of [[speech]].

Although [[analytic treatment]] does involve the [[resolution ]] of the [[particular ]] ''[[transference|transference relationship]]'' established with the [[analyst]], [[transference]] itself still subsists after the [[end of analysis]].

* the strengthening the [[ego]]* the [[adaptation ]] to [[reality]]* the [[disappearance ]] of the [[symptom]]* the [[cure ]] of an underlying disease (e.g.''[[neurosis]]'')

For [[Lacan]], [[analysis]] is not essentially a [[treatment|therapeutic process ]] but rather a [[search ]] for [[truth]] -- and the [[truth]] is not always beneficial.<ref>{{S17}} p.122</ref>

{{See}}* [[Analysand]]* [[Analyst]]||* [[Fantasy]]* [[Sinthome]]||* [[Desire of the analystSpeech]]* [[End of analysisSubject]]||* [[ResistanceSymptom]]