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[[Lacan]] also uses the concept of [[helplessness]] to illustrate the sense of '''abandonment''' and '''[[subjective destitution]]''' that the [[analysand]] feels at the '''[[end of analysis]]'''. <blockquote>"At the end of a [[training]] [[analysis]] the [[subject]] should reach and know the domain and level of the experience of absolute disarray."<ref>{{S7}} p. 304</ref></blockquote> The '''[[end of analysis]]''' is not conceived of by [[Lacan]] as the realization of some blissful plenitude, but quite the contrary, as a moment when the [[subject]] comes to terms with his utter solitude. However, whereas the [[development|infant]] can rely on its [[mother]]'s [[helplessness|help]], the [[analysand]] at the '''[[end of analysis]]''' "can expect [[help]] from no one."<ref>{{S7}} p. 304</ref> If this seems to present a particularly ascetic view of [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]], this is exactly how [[Lacan]] wishes it to be seen; [[psychoanalysis]] is, in [[Lacan]]'s words, a "long subjective acesis."<ref>{{E}} p. 105</ref>