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In dealing with satisfaction , we tackle two central issues in psychoanalysis : the problem of transmission, and that of the training (production) of analysts. Even if it is not a fundamental concept of psychoanalysis, satisfaction is evoked at some crucial moments in both Freudian theory and Lacanian teaching, with respect to the drive, repetition, symptom, the subject’s identity, jouissance, as well as the end on analysis. The concept thus indicates an effect as subject, following the race for truth that this subject starts over and over again, as well as the impact on this subject of an object which is always inadequate as far as the sought of satisfaction is concerned. By means of this incursion into the meanders of satisfaction in psychoanalysis, what is hinted at is the relationship between what is satisfying at the beginning of an analysis, in terms of “enough done”, and what is new at the end of analysis, in a contingent rather than necessary way, in the domain of satisfaction – an affect following Lacan ; in other words, what, of repetition, remains as creation of a satisfaction at the end.