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In this paper I would like to put forward certain considerations on the subject of the conclusion of analysis, which I have already discussed repeatedly elsewhere.
More specifically, I am going to discuss the complex problem of the post-analytic stage. This paper is also a further contribution to the paper I presented at the congress on “The Psychoanalytic Process and its Aspects of Continuity and Discontinuity” (Milan, May 1984).
I will begin by listing the points which I find most important.
On a more general level, the question whether the nature of the post-analytic state of mind is of necessity self-analytic or not, and what the situation is in which it takes place.
On a more specific level, the question whether the conclusion of analysis represents the conclusion of a process or only of a relationship, and what connection exists between these two elements.
* Paper read at the conference on “Psychoanalytic Technique from Mid-Analysis to Termination” (Centro Milanese di Psicoanalisi), June 1987.
The observation of cases in a post-analytic situation shows the interrelation between situations of interminability, interruption and reanalysis.
As for the fate of the analytic relationship, the question of what parts or moments of it might be forgotten.
The question whether there are parts of the personality which remain split or at least not totally integrated and what their fate is.