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Subservient analysis.

Luiz Meyer1

  • 1regilu@that.com.br

The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
|November 25, 2003
PubMed
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Training analysis should be abolished, not maintained. This paper critiques its didactic function, viewing it as a fetish and ideological construct that conceals psychoanalytic limitations and institutionalizes practices. Abolishing it would de-ideologize the institution.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

Background:

  • The efficacy and necessity of training analysis have been debated since 1930.
  • Training analysis is often criticized for its rigid, didactic structure.
  • This structure can create an autonomous reality separate from the analyst-analysand relationship.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically examine the concept and practice of training analysis.
  • To explore the reasons behind the persistence of training analysis despite criticisms.
  • To propose the abolition of training analysis and its de-ideologization.

Main Methods:

  • Historical review of criticisms of training analysis since 1930.
  • Analysis of functional organization and effects of training analysis.

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  • Examination of training analysis as a fetish and ideological construct.

    • Main Results:

    • Training analysis functions as a fetish, allowing analysts to deny limitations.
    • It serves as an ideological construct, naturalizing psychoanalytic practice.
    • Criticisms have not fundamentally altered its prescriptive institutional functioning.

    Conclusions:

    • Training analysis should be abolished, not maintained.
    • Analysands should be responsible for their own analyses.
    • Abolition would aid in the de-ideologization of psychoanalytic institutions.