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[[Freud]]'s views of [[ethics|morality]] as a pathogenic force might seem to imply that the [[analyst]] simply has to help the [[analysand]] free himself from moral constraints.
However, which such an [[interpretation]] may find some support in [[Freud]]'s earlier work,<ref>Freud 1908d</ref> [[Lacan]] is firmly opposed to such a view of [[Freud]], preferring the more pessimistic [[Freud]] of ''[[Civilization and Its Discontents]]''<ref>{{F}} 1930</ref>the analyst simply has to help the analysand free himself from moral constraintsand stating categorically that "Freud was in no way a progressive. "<ref>{{S7}} p. 183</ref>
[[Psychoanalysis]], then, is not simply a libertine ethos.
On the one other hand, nor can he cannot simply align himself with civilised moralityadopt an opposing libertine approach, since this too remains within the field of [[morality is pathogenic]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 3-4</ref>
The rule of neutrality may seem to offer the analyst a way out of this dilemma, but in fact it does not, for Lacan points out that there is no such thing as an ethically neutral position. The [[analyst ]] cannot avoid, then, having to face [[ethics|ethical questions]].
"Have you acted in conformity with the desire that is in you?"<ref>{{S7}} p.314</ref>