ABSTRACT
Lacan reworked his theory throughout his teaching, but there is one unchanging idea about the effects of an analysis and it is this: nothing is possible in psychoanalysis without the subject taking up a position. The importance of the subject’s position can be seen in Lacan’s long-held notion that in the course of an analysis, it is necessary that something be assumed by the subject. At the level of the connection between the effects in the real and what happens as a consequence for the subject, there is a decision which will constitute his true support after the analysis. In Lacan’s terms of that time, the analyst accompanies the analysand in sustaining desire to the point of revealing the kernel that is the subject’s particularity. But once the subject has reached this moment, he can very well go on his way or begin the “true journey”, a journey in which castration cannot be avoided for it is the entry ticket.
