ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors explore how to get out, in the neuroses, of the infernal circle of demand, meaning by it the repetition effect of demand as such. In Jacques Lacan there is a peculiar inversion of this Freudian statement: it is because there is a lack in the structure, precisely, that the paternal operation can be inscribed. When Lacan conceives the absolutely new that psychoanalysis contributes for the analysand, he does it through his notion of the end of analysis which consists of a pass. The manoeuvre proposed by Lacan in the analytical practice is not to meet the demand, which aims at making the dialectic of the object emerge, in this case due to the frustration that not meeting the demand implies. In Lacan's later teaching the essential articulation between desire and demand will be conceptually built through a topological surface: the torus.
