End of analysis

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Sigmund Freud

In Analysis Terminable and Interminable (1937), Freud asks:

Is there such a thing as a natural end to an analysis?[1]


Freud discusses the question of whether it is ever possible to conclude an analysis, or whether all analyses are necessarily incomplete.

Is analysis terminable? How, and in what sense?