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==Practice of ==Psychoanalysis====

==Jacques Lacan==Although the The term was inherited by [[psychoanalysis]] from medicine, it has acquired a specific [[meaning]] in [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalytic theory]] which is quite different from the way it is [[understood ]] in [[psychiatry|medicine]].

====Aim of Treatment====In [[particular]], the [[end of analysis|aim ]] of [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]] is not seen [[Lacan]] as to "healingheal" or "curingcure" people the [[analysand]], in the [[sense ]] of producing developing a perfectly healthy [[psyche]].

==Clinical Structures "Incurable"==The [[clinical structureStructure|Clinical structures]]s of , such as [[neurosis]], [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]] are seen as essentially "incurable,." and the aim of [[analytic treatment]] is simply to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate his [[truth]].

==Structural Progression====Analytic Process==The [[Lacanend of analysis|aim]] argues that the of [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]] is a process with a definite direction, a to lead the [[structuralanalysand]] to articulate this [[progresstruth]]ion with a beginning, middle, and end.

===Beginning=Analytic Process====The beginning, or "point of entry into the analytic situation", is a contract, or "pact", between the [[analysttreatment]] and the is a [[analysandprogress|process]] which includes the with a definite direction, a ''[[analysandstructural]]'s agreement to abide by the [[fundamental ruleprogress]]ion'' with a beginning, middle, and end.

=====Beginning=====The ''beginning'', or "point of entry into the [[analytic]] [[situation]]", is a ''contract'', or "''pact''", between the [[analyst]] and the [[analysand]] which includes the [[analysand]]'s agreement to abide by the [[Fundamental Rule]]. Following the initial consultation, a series of face-to-face preliminary interviews take [[place]].

# Firstly, they They enable a properly [[psychoanalytic]] [[symptom]] to be constituted in place of the vague collection of complaints often brought by the [[patient]]. # Secondly, they They allow [[time]] for the [[transference]] to develop. # Thirdly, they They permit the [[analyst]] to ascertain whether or not there is really a [[demand ]] for [[psychoanalysis]], and also to hypothesize [[about ]] the [[clinical]] [[structure]] of the [[analysand]].

=====Middle=====After the preliminary interviews, the [[treatment]] is no longer conducted face to face, but with the [[analysand]] reclining on a couch while the [[analyst]] sits behind him, out of the [[analysand]]'s field of [[vision ]] (the couch is not used in the [[treatment]] of [[psychotic]] [[patient]]s).

==Speech==As he [[free associates]], the [[analysand]] works through the [[signifier]]s that have determined him in his [[history]], and is driven by the very [[process ]] of [[speech]] itself to articulate something of his [[desire]].

==Desire of the Analyst and Resistance===End=====This is a [[dynamic ]] process which involves a [[conflict ]] between a force which [[drives ]] the [[treatment]] on (see [[transference]], [[desire of the analyst]]) and an opposing force which blocks the process (see [[resistance]]).