[A revolution forever occulted]

In the history of the analytic movement, the application for the recognition of the S.F.P by the I.P.A. served to reveal the ideological, political and institutional imperialism inherent in Lacanism, and doubtless present in a latent state within Freudianism: the training analysis, the necessity of which has been accepted without argument since Freud, has always been led in the aim of providing an "end product" having received "the most appropriate conformation" (die geeignetste Ausbildung), and thus in an aim that is extrinsic to the process of analysis itself. Conversely, the modified habilitation procedures adopted by the A.P.F. in 1971 were guided by the idea that the "extraterritoriality" of analysis should be preserved, thus avoiding the presence of unanalysable material: the "order book" through which the institution placed its order for well "conformed" analysts with training analysts. For Freud's discovery is actually eclipsed if one accepts the idea that analysis can be "the most appropriate" (die Geeignetste) "conformation" (Ausbildung) serving to satisfy an aim that is in fact of a professional, ideological or institutional nature, and if one forgets that it is, on the contrary, a "formation" (Bildung) that is "the most proper" (die Eigenste), enabling everyone to make his own this discovery of the unconscious. The notion of training analysis no longer has any meaning within the A.P.F. This manner of operating conflicts with the commonly accepted Freudian line. It is all the more surprising to find that this fact remains unknown to the analytic movement as a whole, and the author questions himself on the reasons for this form of repression.