This paper aims to provide a conceptual overview of Sigmund Freud's and Jacques Lacan's theorizing on the question of the end of analysis. Starting from the Freudian impasses of the text Analysis Terminable and Interminable (1937), it can be seen that Lacan's work made notable theoretical and technical advances, formalizing a theory specific to the end of analysis in which the ethics of psychoanalysis sustains a logical outcome for the subject and...
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