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One type of interminable analysis can be seen in those analysands who present for a second analysis even though the first was terminated more or less satisfactorily. Braunschweig cites Freud's well-known recommendation for a re-analysis every five years. The interminability which characterizes every analysis, at least theoretically if not in the practical sense, is at issue in the question of a second analysis. Braunschweig cites the theories of Michel Neyraut and of Conrad Stein and develops the thesis that there is a traumatic seduction involved in the first analysis, with masochistic elements in the subjection of the patient to the superego, identified as the dead father. Repression of the sexual and sadistic father has the psychic reality of a murder. Analysis thus involves an element of unconscious guilt liberated in the patients by the analysis and the interpretation of oedipal strivings. When the first analysis is terminated, this guilt is desexualized along with the oedipal objects. The end of the first analysis is the unconscious equivalent of the cessation of the analyst's desire for the patient and the death of the psychoanalyst as the object of desire. After a latency period, the "five years" specified by Freud, a second analysis may involve an attempt to resexualize the relationship with the analyst. The protective presence of the parents during latency finds a parallel in the presence of the analyst who provides protection in mastering fantasies of seduction. The second time around in analysis is sometimes even more successful because of the facilitation of the acceptance in consciousness of the disagreeable aspects of human desire.