ABSTRACT
The symptom is what via the unconscious makes up for the foreclosure of the sexual relation. It is thus structurally out of the question that the fundamental symptom be absent at the end of analysis, whether we know it or not. A symptom that creates a specific social bond between bodies includes desire and the phantasy underlying it. There are several ways of enjoying the unconscious. The fundamental symptom is one that involves the RUCS. Free association is another way of playing with the plural declension called the rosary of signifiers. The masculine clinic, which is much less discussed than the feminine clinic, could be refined by these questions about final identification. It is true that everything indicates that the analyst is tempted, for lack of any typical version of the analyst as symptom, to cling to the father version, especially when he is a man. To Freud's credit he had already perceived and articulated this problem.
