ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the clinical aspects of the end of analysis. Not all analyses end in the same way; therefore one could speak of the clinical forms of termination, as in internal medicine. Freud said in "Analysis Terminable and Interminable", not without a certain irony, that an analysis terminates when the patient ceases to attend the sessions. An important aspect of the practice of termination is precisely how it is diagnosed, how the course of the analytic process is evaluated, how to judge whether termination approaches. It is the concrete clinical indicators that appear spontaneously. For Fernando E. Guiard, the post-analytic process evolves in three stages: the initial stage, in which the analyst is missed and his return is yearned for; then a stage of working through, in which the ex-analysand fights for his autonomy and accepts solitude; and finally the outcome, in which autonomy is achieved and the analyst's imago becomes more abstract.
