Three times in the last day and a half I've started an inventory of the reactions certain reluctant bloggers keep provoking in me, and three times I've removed the posts.

Lacan's famous five minute session: this wasn't Gallic caprice, it was just the insight that there is no point in analyzing a resistant subject. And conversely, if a session was going particularly well, Lacan would clear the day's appointments and work as long as the analysand could keep going.