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Topics such as responsibility and commitment are normally viewed as belonging to the discussion of the therapeutic framework or therapeutic agreement, and are seldom found at the heart of the therapeutic discourse. Through clinical examples, and primarily by substantiating my arguments on research dealing with the fundamentals of psychoanalysis, a preliminary sketch is presented of a world of which we seem unaware, in which commitment has a status in psychoanalysis similar in its primacy, strength, and complexity to that of sexuality.