ABSTRACT
Although there is perhaps no such thing as a completed analysis, most patients do, sooner or later, stop coming to analysis. Perhaps we, as analysts, are handicapped in knowing all about what ending feels like, for by the mere fact of becoming analysts we have succeeded in bypassing an experience which our patients have to go through. We have chosen to identify ourselves with our analyst’s profession and to act out that identification-a thing which our patients on the whole are not able to do. But we have to manage as best we can; and here is an attempt to describe what no longer coming to analysis meant to one particular patient.
