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4. In his comparison between psychoanalytic treatment and the game of bridge, Lacan describes the analyst as playing the position of the 'dummy' (in French, le mort; literally, 'the dead person'). 'The analyst intervenes concretely in the dialectic of analysis by pretending that he is dead . . . he makes death present' (E, 140). The analyst 'cadaverises' himself (se corpsifiat).

5. The question which constitutes the structure of [[obsessional neurosis]] concerns death; it is the question 'Am I dead or aliveT (S3, 179-80).