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[[Lacan]] conceives of the [[end of analysis]] in various ways.
[[Lacan]] describes the [[end of analysis]] in various ways.
:4. In the final decade of his teaching, [[Lacan]] describes the [[end of analysis]] as an "[[identification]] with the ''[[sinthome]]''."
==Subjective Destitution==
Common to all these formulations is the idea that the [[end of analysis]] involves fundamental change in the subjective position of the [[analysand]] -- the "[[end of analysis|subjective destitution]]" of the [[analysand]]
and a corresponding change in the subjective position of the [[analyst]] -- "loss of being" ([[Fr]]. ''[[désêtre]]'') of the [[analyst]].
The [[analyst]] is reduced -- from the position of the [[subject-supposed-to-know]] -- to a mere [[surplus]], a [[objet petit a]], the [[cause]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[desire]].
