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==Various formulationsSigmund Freud==In ''[[LacanAnalysis Terminable and Interminable]] conceives of the '', [[Freud]] asks:<blockquote>"Is there such a [[thing]] as a [[natural]] end of to an analysis?"<ref>{{F}} ''[[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|Analysis Terminable and Interminable]]'', 1937. [[SE]] in various waysXXIII p.219</ref></blockquote>
==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]] describes 's answer is that [[psychoanalytic treatment]] is a [[progress|logical process]] with a beginning and an end-point, designated as the "[[end of analysis]] in various ways".
The question of the [[end of analysis]] is therefore something more than whether a [[treatment|course]] of [[treatment|analytic treatment]] has or has not achieved its aim; it is a question of whether or not the [[treatment]] has reached its [[logical]] [[End of analysis|end-point]]. ===Definition===[[Lacan]] conceives of this [[End of analysis|end-point]] in various ways. :1. In the early 1950s, [[Lacan]] describes the [[end of analysis]] as "the advent of a [[true]] [[speech]] and the realization by the [[subject]] of his [[history]]" -- that is, as coming to [[terms]] with one's own [[death|mortality]].<ref>{{E}} p. 88</ref> :<blockquote>"The [[subject]] ... begins the analysis by [[speaking]] about himself without speaking to you, 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, n. 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>
:4. In the final decade of his teaching, [[Lacan]] describes the [[end of analysis]] as an "[[identification]] with the ''[[sinthome]]''."
====Position of Analysand and Analyst====
In general, the [[end of analysis]] involves two fundamental changes in the respective [[discourse|subjective positions]] of
* the [[analysand]] -- the "[[subjective destitution]]" of the [[analysand]], and
The [[end analyst]] is reduced -- from the [[discourse|position]] of analysisthe [[subject-supposed-to-know]] -- to a mere [[surplus]] involves two fundamental changes in , a [[objet petit a]], the respective subjective positions [[cause]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[desire]].
<blockquote>"The [[analyst]] true termination of an analysis" is reduced -- from the position of the [[subject-supposed-therefore no more and no less than that which "prepares you to-know]] -- to a mere [[surplus]], a [[objet petit a]], the [[cause]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[desire]]become an analyst."<ref>{{S7}} p.303</ref></blockquote>
===Misconceptions===
====Identification with the Analyst====
[[Lacan]] criticizes those [[psychoanalysts]] who describe the [[end of analysis]] in terms of [[identification]] with the [[analyst]].
====Other Misconceptions====
The [[end of analysis]] does not involve:
* 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>
==Beyond identification with the analystSee Also=={{See}}* [[Analysand]]* [[Analyst]]||* [[Fantasy]]* [[Sinthome]]||* [[Speech]]* [[Subject]]||* [[Symptom]]* [[Transference]]{{Also}}
==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div>[[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]] criticizes those [[psychoanalystsCategory:Dictionary]] who describe the [[end of analysisCategory:Treatment]] in terms of [[identificationCategory:Concepts]] with the [[analystCategory:Terms]].{{OK}}