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An intervention can only be called a true "[[act|psychoanalytic act]]" when it succeeds in expressing the [[desire of the analyst]] -- that is, when it helps the [[analysand]] to move towards the [[end of analysis]].
[[Lacan]] dedicates a year of his [[seminar]] to discussing further the nature of the [[act|psychoanalytic act]].<ref>[[Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Seminar XI|Le Séminaire. Livre XV. L'acte psychanalytique, 1967-868]]''. Unpublished.</ref>
==Conclusion==
Nevertheless, this success is only partial because the [[unconscious]] [[desire]] is expressed in a distorted form.
It follows that, when it is fully and [[conscious]]ly assumed, "suicide is the only completely successful act."<ref>[[Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Télévision]], Paris: Seuil, 1973. [''[[Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment]]'', 1973aed. Joan Copjec, trans. Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson, New York: Norton, 1990]. p.66-7</ref>
The [[act]] expresses completely an [[intention]] which is both [[conscious]] and [[unconscious]], the [[conscious]] assumption of the [[unconscious]] [[death drive]] (on the other hand, a sudden impulsive suicide attempt is not a true [[act]], but probably a [[passage to the act]]).
The [[death drive]] is thus closely connected with the [[ethics|ethical domain]] in [[Lacan]]'s thought.
== References ==
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