Current Political Status of Cures, Problems for the Psychoanalyst

Speakers

 Mario Binasco (Italy)

Annalisa Bucciol (Italy)

Coordinates

Rhitèe Cevasco (Spain)

Discusses

Colette Soler (France)

Psychoanalysis came about when Freud invented the analytical device, giving up hypnosis but staying within the realm of scientific medicine. It emerged within the medical profession, which has remained the material basis of psychoanalysts' work to this day. At that time, the medical profession still had authority recognised by society and politics, backed by its tradition of autonomy and original expertise. However, non-medical psychoanalysts, although part of this tradition as “caregivers”, soon encountered problems with the established medical discourse: this is why Freud wrote The Question of Lay Analysis, defending the original, sui generis and sui iuris nature of psychoanalysis. In his critique of the IPA, Lacan took up and rearticulated Freud's position, denouncing the degradation suffered by psychoanalysis in the Anglo-American world, partly because of the rejection of the "lay" nature of psychoanalysis, and of its inclusion/submission to medical discourse.

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