ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis rests on a precarious ethics that demands one steer clear of any fantasy of closure. That one can imagine psychoanalytic work as precisely this kind of closure is why psychoanalysts are required to go into it. In an intimate encounter with hysteria the knowledge of psychoanalysis is pushed. Jacques Lacan reenlarges this category back toward its critical place at the foundation of S. Freud's discoveries. There is in psychoanalysis a fragile moment of submission, a giving in to fatigue, to the threat, to a dream—touching impossibility. Psychoanalysis was always a hollowed out promise which cannot sustain themselves without submitting to this passion for being, passion always being something precarious. In an intimate encounter with hysteria the knowledge of psychoanalysis is pushed. Lacan reenlarges this category back toward its critical place at the foundation of Freud's discoveries.
