==Sessions of Variable Duration==
[[Lacan]]'s [[practice]] of [[sessions of variable duration]] ([[French]]: ''[[séances scandées]]'') came to be one of the main reasons that the [[IPA]] gave for excluding him when the [[SFP]] was negotiating for [[IPA]] [[recognition]] in the early 1960s.
<!-- Some [[people]] say that [[Lacan]] was expelled because he was experimenting with analytical sessions of variable duration.
The conventional length of a session was an invariably fifty-minute hour.
[[Lacan]] came to the conclusion that the length of the session should be adjusted according to what the [[patient]] was saying: some long, some short. He argued that the [[psychoanalyst]] attends not so much to the [[meaning]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[words]] as to their [[form]]. In his view the [[ritual]] ending of the session after a predetermined fixed length of time was "a merely chronometric stopping [[place]]."
==Sessions of Variable Duration==AlternativelyBy contrast, he wanted to find for each session a stopping place suited to what the [[analystpatient]] can also was [[punctuatespeech|saying]] the . He believed that [[analysandnothing]]'s in [[speechtheory]] by a moment warrants the fifty-minute session. Rather, the adjustment of the length of [[silence]], or by interrupting the [[analysand]], or by terminating session should become one of the tools of [[session]] at an opportune moment.<ref>{{Epsychoanalysis]] p.44</ref>
This last form <!-- Lacan antagonized many people by putting the length of the [[punctuationpsychoanalytic]] has been session into question. The [[difference]] between the fifty-minute hour and the "short" session is a source difference between two [[concepts]] of controversy throughout time. On the one side, time is filled with precision; on the [[other]], it is approximate and variable. In the history normal psychoanalytic hour it is the clock that decides the ending of the session. --><!-- Lacan argued that some analysands, [[knowing]] that they were guaranteed fifty minutes no matter what, used their sessions to discuss things that did not interest [[them]] in the least. Lacanreasoned that such analysands were using the fifty-minute hour as a [[resistance]]ian , as an excuse to waste the [[psychoanalysisanalyst]]'s [[time]], since to make him or her wait for them. <blockquote>"We [[know]] how the patient reckons the passage of time and adjusts his story to the clock, how he contrives to be saved by the clock. We know how he anticipates the end of the hour ... keeping an eye on the clock as on a shelter looming in the distance."</blockquote> --><!-- One argument in favor of the variable session is that it contravenes prevents boredom. Many [[patients]] come to know when the traditional [[IPAanalyst]] is going to end. If the [[practiceanalyst]] cuts off quickly, sessions cannot become an empty ritual. The [[analyst]] can thus use the element of surprise to open up new pathways. Lacan's view was that if the patient could be dismissed in the middle of a [[sentence]] or a [[dream]] or an interval of silence it would provoke the [[patient]] to make a clear revelation of that s/he had been hesitant to disclose. -->Alternatively, the [[sessionanalyst]] can also [[punctuate]] the [[analysand]]'s [[speech]] by a [[moment]] of [[sessions of variable duration|fixed durationsilence]], or by interrupting the [[analysand]], or by terminating the [[session]]at an opportune moment.<ref>{{E}} p. 44</ref>
This last form of [[Lacanpunctuation]]'s has been a source of controversy throughout the [[practicehistory]] of [[sessions of variable durationLacan]] (ian [[Frenchpsychoanalysis]]: '', since it contravenes the traditional [[séances scandéesIPA]]'') came to be one of the main reasons that the [[IPApractice]] gave for excluding him when the of [[SFPsession]] was negotiating for s of [[IPAsessions of variable duration|fixed duration]] recognition in the early 1960s.
Today, the [[technique]] of [[punctuation]], especially as expressed in the [[practice]] of [[sessions of variable duration]], continues to be a distinctive feature of [[Lacanian]] [[psychoanalysis]].
==See Also==
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* [[Signifying chain]]
* [[Enunciation]]
* [[Enunciated]]* [[Point de capiton]]||
* [[Communication]]
* [[Demand]]
* [[Speech]]
* [[Punctum]]* [[Sessions of variable duration]]{{Also}}
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