End of analysis
Sigmund Freud
In Analysis Terminable and Interminable, Freud asks:
Is there such a thing as a natural end to an analysis?[1]
Jacques Lacan
According to Lacan, it is indeed possible to speak of concluding an analysis.
Lacan answers that it is indeed possible to speak of concluding an analysis.
Although not all analyses are carried through to their conclusion, analytic treatment is a logical process which has an end, and Lacan designates this end-point by the term "end of analysis" (Fr. fin d'analyse).
The aim of psychoanalytic treatment
The aim of psychoanalytic treatment
- ↑ Freud, Sigmund. Analysis Terminable and Interminable. 1937. SE XXIII p.209-253
