Duelo del analista e identificación con el síntoma

Abstract

On the basis of Lacan's proposals

in his Transference seminar, the

article examines a particular type

of mourning, the mourning of the

analyst, which reveals the incapacity

of any object of love to fulfill

desire. It also examines why, as a

logical consequence of mentioned

mourning, Lacan suggests that the

identification with the symptom

constitutes the end of the analysis.

Thus, through Freudian references,

it is possible to say that some kind of

identification takes place in all type

of mourning, not only in its process,

but also in its end.