ABSTRACT
Clinical supervision, as a training requirement for psychoanalysts, was formalised with the development of the International Psychoanalytic Association and the creation of the Berlin Institute. Traditional aspect of psychoanalytic supervision is the analysis of the countertransference. The initial function of supervision was not only to deliver adequate professional services to the public, but also to preserve the integrity and internal coherence of psychoanalysis. The analyst is not authorised by supervision or the supervisor, but by the personal analytical experience with the unconscious and the symptom. The supervisor is responsible for the patients of the supervisee and exercises a function of vigilance and of protecting the public from poor-quality treatments. The analytic supervisory relationship is characterised by a transferential relationship and a transposition of the roles of Erastes and Eromenos. Within Lacanian theory the sinthome refers to the end of analysis, and what Lacan calls the traversing of the phantasm.
