[The history of psychoanalytic training in France: a contribution]

I/A local history of analytic training in France must first of all be placed within the context of the evolution of psychoanalysis from its origin (Freud, Vienna, 1900) and as it spread from there throughout the world (the International Association, 1910) and pursued its activity through two World Wars. II/The waves of emigration of Jewish populations on the one hand, and a law of alternating expansion and rejection on the other left an important mark on this evolution. III/In France especially, and in the post-war period (in the 50s), a great number of scissions took place: a scission with the International Psychoanalytic Association to start with, and then within the renewal initiated during this period by Jacques Lacan; problems linked to analytic training having always been the cause and the main issue of these separations. IV/At present the Group whose theoretical positions we are presenting has provided the following conceptual foundations to the question of training: 1/The unification of analytic practice and formative practice within the theoretico-clinical field. 2/The redefinition of the unit formed by Transference/Counter-transference/Transferred materials as a central element in both these practices. 3/The definition and theory of the "Analyse quatrième" as the basis of the training process. 4/The definition of the interanalytic session that evolves into a habilitating session, as an authority determining the critical and collective elaboration of analytic and formative practice considered as a whole.