Helen Sheehan : Sitting there saying nothing.

To arrive at a preliminary definition of the Psychoanalytic Act as described by Lacan in his seminar of 1967-1968 we have to begin by coming to terms with endings, with all their equivocations. There are four such endings which underline this seminar. I will briefly mention three and then say something about the ending appropriate for our psychoanalytic purpose- that which Freud calls Analysis Terminable and Interminable. The other endings are: The end of Metaphysics, the end of Theology and the end of Science...

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