ABSTRACT
Lacanians stand accused of greed and unanalysed countertransference. Non-Lacanians are allied with envy and theoretical rigidity. To demonstrates the deadlock more clearly, perhaps it's helpful to look at the way Lacan introduces the idea in his "Rome Discourse". At Andre Green's treatment of the subject in his book Time in Psychoanalysis where he seems to be responding to the passage in the "Rome Discourse", although he doesn't say so directly. Reading both texts, one gets the impression that there's something utterly non-negotiable on each side. In 2009, an ultra-clockwatchy management of time in psychoanalysis was proposed by government-backed regulators. A draft document was produced as a result of a "Skills for Health" consultation. "Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: a new sophism" Lacan presents us with the prisoners' dilemma. Lacan divides the time of the solution into three parts: the instant of the gaze, the time for understanding, and the moment of concluding.
