The End of Analysis

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“Tal’s book doesn’t propose an answer that would safeguard the status of psychoanalysis but rather a series of paradoxes that undermine its secure status. The end of analysis appears rather as a fantasy, not the traversal of the fantasy but the maintaining of it.”
—From the Foreword by Professor Mladen Dolar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

This book interrogates the “end of analysis” in psychoanalytic thought from Freud to Lacan. It demonstrates that the notions of mourning, renunciation, liquidation of transference, and traversal of fantasy cannot serve as a settlement for the castration complex (i.e., central to neurosis) but are rather prey to the castration complex itself. It shows how psychoanalysis remains incomplete as long as it has not surpassed them as fantasies sustained by psychoanalytic ideology. In other words, it argues that the analytic procedure must pull psychoanalysis out of this therapeutic tradition for it to be complete and to instigate an attempt of its renewal.

The book equally revisits Freud’s and Lacan’s underpinnings in the Enlightenment project, in order to formulate the problem of transference on proper dialectical foundations—that is, the mechanism of alienation from Descartes to Hegel, Kierkegaard’s concept of anxiety, as well as the concepts of authority and value in Durkheim, Mauss, and Marx. In doing so, it provides fresh insights that will appeal to practitioners, as well as to scholars of psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Mohamed Tal is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst; he held a private practice in Beirut, Lebanon, since 2009 and moved to practice in Dubai, UAE, since 2022. He is an affiliate of the Rome Institute, and a member of the Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). Dr Tal has worked as a Psychotherapist with humanitarian organizations in the Middle East, including Doctors Without Borders, WarChild Holland, Handicap International, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit. He also held a seminar on The Real at the École Libanaise de Psychanalyse from 2018 to 2021. 

This book interrogates the “end of analysis” in psychoanalytic thought from Freud to Lacan. It demonstrates that the notions of mourning, renunciation, liquidation of transference, and traversal of fantasy cannot serve as a settlement for the castration complex (i.e., central to neurosis) but are rather prey to the castration complex itself. It shows how psychoanalysis remains incomplete as long as it has not surpassed them as fantasies sustained by psychoanalytic ideology. In other words, it argues that the analytic procedure must pull psychoanalysis out of this therapeutic tradition for it to be complete and to instigate an attempt of its renewal.

The book equally revisits Freud’s and Lacan’s underpinnings in the Enlightenment project, in order to formulate the problem of transference on proper dialectical foundations—that is, the mechanism of alienation from Descartes to Hegel, Kierkegaard’s concept of anxiety, as well as the concepts of authority and value in Durkheim, Mauss, and Marx. In doing so, it provides fresh insights that will appeal to practitioners, as well as to scholars of psychoanalysis and philosophy.

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Lacanian Psychoanalysis End of analysis liquidation of transference la passe subject drive jouissance

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“Tal’s book doesn’t propose an answer that would safeguard the status of psychoanalysis but rather a series of paradoxes that undermine its secure status. The end of analysis appears rather as a fantasy, not the traversal of the fantasy but the maintaining of it.” (From the Foreword by Professor Mladen Dolar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.)  “This is an original, provocative, and most welcome book. Writing as a psychoanalyst, Tal calls for a high-theory renovation of Freudian praxis – as always-already Lacanian and only-just-now Cartesian. However, his exegetic acumen and incursions into philosophy serve one purpose: conceptualising the end of analysis. In the process, Tal dialectically subverts a series of orthodoxclichés. For him, we enter analysis because transference does not work well enough in everyday life; neurosis is a perversion of perversion; the outcome of the analysis of neurosis thus amounts to neurosis itself (or new-rosis); the traversal of fantasy means the inevitability of fantasy; the so-called pass equals psychoanalysis’s analysis of itself as reinvention in the symptom.” (Lorenzo Chiesa, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Newcastle University, UK.)   “From its inception, psychoanalysis aimed at attaining an end, its own end, the end of analysis. Thereby, it was supposed to have transformed its subject. But can one institutionalize such transformation? Tal’s outstanding book shows us what it is to understand the intricacies that anyone thinking through the possibility of an institution of emancipation cannot but confront.” (Frank Ruda,Professor for Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, University of Dundee, Scotland.)   “From an author who works in both the psychoanalytic clinic and philosophy, this is an extremely forceful bringing together of thetwo to reopen and restage some of the fundamental concepts and moments of psychoanalysis, beginning with the concept of the end of analysis.” (Alenka Zupančič, Author of What is Sex? and Ethics of the Real)
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