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The theme that characterises the last session of an analysis is often mistakenly thought to constitute the end of the latter. This theme should more correctly be considered as the beginning of a final act that opens onto the unknown. The last session is thus characterised not only by the setting into motion of particular affects but also by what might be called a precipitation of the transfence-counter-transferential process. It is, in other words, a crucial moment in which two stories come together and separate and in which pain and hope and also a certain degree of insatisfaction are linked. One might say that the protagonists are never as closely bound as in this final moment of separation. This moment points to the incapacity of language to translate the moment of apprehension that precedes loss and opens onto absence.