The formation of a Psychoanalyst and Lacan's School

Abstract

The history of psychoanalysis shows that until Lacan's intervention in the field of the school in the 1960s, the formation of a psychoanalyst was subject to formal rules of didactic psychoanalysis. Lacan brought the notion of didactics, related to the production of knowledge in the psychoanalytic process, to the concept. He connected psychoanalytic practice to the formation of a psychoanalyst as well as to the field of school. He introduced the so-called doctrine of la passé, which was conceived as a procedure for the transmission of knowledge produced in psychoanalysis, as far as this knowledge touches the real. Subsequently, Lacan moved from this severe didactic conception of la passe, and related the formation of a psychoanalyst to the effect of satisfaction as a subject's answer to the encounter with the real. In this doctrine, the crucial moment of a psychoanalyst's formation becomes the transformation and not the abolition of the symptom, which is a result of psychoanalytic procedure.