ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a specific manifestation of readiness to end which has come to the attention. It is the patient's spontaneous representation of the process of psychoanalysis, something which indicates a different relationship to time and a greater connectedness to the 'human world'. The chapter describes the patients whom, each in their own way, through an act of integration and symbolisation came to represent the process of psychoanalysis. Contemporary literature stresses in particular the better psychic functioning and the creation of the tools which will enable the patient to face future situations, the capacity for self-reflection and for representation. The aim of psychoanalysis is to enable the development of the capacity to reconfigure the threads in a symbolic form, enabling separation via the creation of memory of the process. Psychoanalysis is unique in providing a treatment, the positive outcome of which may differ widely from the outcome which the patient requested.
