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In this article, correspondences between psychoanalysis and prostitution form a conceptual framework within which to examine the broader socio-cultural context of Lacan's controversial interrupted/short sessions. Considering the similar position of the prostitute and the analyst vis-à-vis their clients, I interpret Lacan's method of “pricking” a patient's discourse as both a way of rejecting the feminized position of the analyst and a performative dissociation from the ghost of the prostitute in the analyst's office.