ABSTRACT
Termination, the end or ending of a psychoanalytic treatment, presents the analyst and the patient with challenges both unique to the occasion and emblematic of the entire treatment endeavor. Issues analyzed and reanalyzed throughout the therapy rear their heads as if to give one more dying gasp before crossing over the line into postanalysis space and time. Enactments of multiple self and other con‰gurations (Davies, 2005), both internal and external, once again take center stage, also preparing for their •ying solo following the ‰nal session. At the same time, the very real here and now inevitability of separation casts its effects on the two players as they struggle to reconcile the closeness they achieved with the ultimate end of that very same closeness. Similar to a loss, but not quite the same, how do both analyst and patient maintain an internal connection while losing the other?
