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As maternal failures allow a child to confront reality, the clinician\u2019s capacity to survive ruptures models relational endurance. Yet unilateral terminations\u2014either by analyst need or institutional countertransference\u2014risk foreclosing this potential: Termination acquires heightened ethical stakes. This paper engages with Levinas, Winnicott, and neuropsychoanalysis to underscore how a good enough termination is both an ethical and a biological process that leaves the work open rather than falsely complete. 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