What may I hope for and expect from psychoanalysis? Freud once wrote, that the most a patient could hope for was deliverance from the neurotic misery: “transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness”. This is a phrase of terrible realism and pessimism. Jacques Lacan thought that one could obtain something original and new from this neurotic unhappiness and give someone a new possibility of choice. He evokes the possibility of, I don’t know whether to say a new desire, but at least a new effect of desire. This is a great promise.