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Freud begins his Constructions in Analysis by defying the analytic practice that functioned upon the principle of “heads I win, tail you lose”, in an attempt to refrain the reduction that psychoanalysis was undergoing back then to an analysis of resistances-a tragic misinterpretation of his earlier uncovering of the compulsion to repeat. Along his endorsement of Freud’s position on the matter in “il n’y a de résistance que dans l’analyste”, Lacan begins his October Proposition on a similar wager, picturing analysis as a chess challenge of which the first and last moves require a guarantee that the analyst does not come out a winner-as in a successful psychotherapist. Although the direct antagonists in both of those figures of the analytic challenge are the analysand and the analyst, the real opponents they represent are the discourse of the master and its gap. Is the pass, therefore, a staging of how the analysand becomes an analyst, or is it a guarantee that the analyst remains an analysand? Is it a pass for analysis to end, or one for it to be continued against its reduction to an analysis of resistances? What is it in the order of rites that the pass attempted? No rite could do without answering the question of what makes a passage, here is one that, for a moment, attempted to pose it.

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Mohamed Tal (University of Dundee)

La Passe: Is It for Analysis to End, or for It To Be Continued?

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