ABSTRACT
Lacan’s view of the analytic treatment is tied to the unconscious but also to the real of the symptom. This is what is crucial for the handling of time in the treatment. If the analyst is less free with regard to the temporal strategy in the treatment, it is because time in analysis is linked to the logic imposed by clinical structure, varying from case to case but with consistent points in accordance with the structures. Time, quite like the analyst’s want-to-be, determines the politics of the treatment. From this political point of view, it can be argued that the short session corresponds to an orientation to the real of the symptom, and that the time of the treatment is what corresponds to that of making do with one’s symptom. The short session is consistent with the Lacanian position which construes the unconscious as real, and which aims at the core of the lucubrations stemming from the unconscious.
