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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>

===Aim of Psychoanalytic Treatment=Jacques Lacan==The [[end of analysisLacan]]'s answer is that [[psychoanalytic treatment]] is a [[progress|''end'' of analysislogical process]] must be distinguished from with a beginning and an end-point, designated as the "[[end of analysis|''aim'' of psychoanalytic treatment]]".

===Aim===The [[end of analysis|aim ''end'' of psychoanalytic treatmentanalysis]] is to lead must be distinguished from the ''[[analysandEnd of analysis|aim]] to articulate the '' of [[truth]] about his [[desirepsychoanalytic treatment]].

Any The [[end of analysis|aim]] of [[treatment]] is to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate the '''[[truth]]''' [[about]] his or her [[desire]], however incomplete, may be regarded as successful when it achieves this aim.

The question of the While not all [[treatment|analyses]] are carried through to their [[end of analysisprogress|conclusion]] is therefore something more than whether a course of , any [[analytic treatment|analysis]] has or has not achieved its aim; -- however incomplete -- may be regarded as successful when it is a question of whether or not the achieves this [[treatmentend of analysis|aim]] has reached its logical end-point.

==End 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 Analysis==whether or not the [[Lacantreatment]] conceives has reached its [[logical]] [[End of this analysis|end-point in various ways]].

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

:<blockquote>1. In the early 1950s, [[Lacan]] describes the [[end of analysis]] as "The the advent of a [[true]] [[subjectspeech]] ... begins and the analysis realization by speaking about himself without speaking to youthe [[subject]] of his [[history]]" -- that is, or by speaking as coming to you without speaking about himself. When he can speak to you about himself, the analysis will be over[[terms]] with one's own [[death|mortality]]."<ref>{{EcE}} p.373, n. 188</ref></blockquote>

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

===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]]