The Psychoanalyst's Education and the Principles of its Power

Abstract

This article proposes to elaborate from the education of psychoanalysts and the politics of psychoanalysis, the articulation between the psychoanalytic and mental health fields. To that end, it starts with Freud's warning about the risk of psychoanalysis appearing as one more technique in the list of medical specialties, added to the questions raised by Franco Basaglia to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. It is understood that both Basaglia's questions and the justifications given by Lacan in his return to Freud have as a possible link the alert regarding the risk of reducing the treatment given to subjects in situations of intense psychic suffering, as well as the education offered in the within psychoanalytic institutions, to a mere exercise of social adequacy. In that sense, we indicate that the psychoanalyst's policy, with his radical commitment to the perspective of not reducing Psychoanalysis to the offer of a treatment that denies the subject's condition of lack-to-be, is a possible perspective to place the psychoanalyst in the face of the rigging of institutions, whether those of mental health or those that permeate the education of psychoanalysts, such as the University and Schools of Psychoanalysis.