ABSTRACT
For an analysand, the termination of an analysis involves recognition of the analyst in the present moment. That recognition entails the ability to feel the aliveness, to grasp the embodied subjectivity of the other person in the room. Working closely with that other person over time, one re-finds oneself. My experience of analysis is the history of this struggle. Given the paradoxical intimacy of the analytic relationship, rule-governed and formal on the one hand, touching on the most private and interior concerns on the other, it seems appropriate to use my own experience as the material for an investigation that draws on the analytic literature regarding termination. If analysis is itself a process of inquiry, then its grounding in the personal offers insight into the intimate pathways through which other forms of intellectual inquiry take shape.
