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progress ([[French]]:''progrès'')
[[Lacan]] claims that the idea of [[progress]], like other [[humanist]] [[:category:concepts|concepts]], is alien to his teaching:
<blockquote>"There is not the slightest idea of progress in anything I articulate, in the sense that this term would imply a happy solution."<ref>{{Sl7}} p.122</ref></blockquote>
In this respect, [[Lacan]] is a basically [[pessimistic]] thinker, and he finds support for such [[pessimism]] in the gloomier works of [[Freud]] such as [[Civilization and its Discontents]].
These texts allow [[Lacan]] to argue that "Freud was in no way a progressive."<ref>{{S7}} p.183</ref>
[[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>
==See Also==
* [[Time]]
* [[Development]]
* [[Treatment]]
== References ==
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[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]