The debate between different forms of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis does not take place over a strict border. It is as old as analysis, thanks to J. Lacan we consider the separation as internal and evolving. Only a strict theory of man's relationship to language as constitutive of man's relationship to the world can separate methods based on identification from analysis whose basis is castration. Identifications are inevitable because the subject has borrowed them in the past. They must be recognised so that their function dealing with irremediable lack - may be revealed. For various reasons the identifications are not always revealed, indeed this revealing is only therapeutic in the after-event, when the subject has accepted loss. Also this distinction can only be made case by case according to the internal coherence of each cure, this is why Lacan devised the ''pass'' [T.N. This is a system used by some lacanian groups to decide who is allowed to be a high-ranking member of a school-the applicant is called to appear before a group and theorise his analysis].
