ON TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
With Freud’s legacy, numerous psychoanalysts carried on with clinical practice, theoretical production, and psychoanalytic training. Lacan, a psychiatrist by training, approached psychoanalysis through his doctoral thesis On Paranoid Psychosis in its Relations with Personality, in which he examined the clinical case of Aimée.
Lacan introduced new pillars for the formation of the psychoanalyst, grounded in the scope and significance of Freud’s text and psychoanalytic clinical practice.
My choice to pursue psychoanalytic formation within Lacan’s school stems from the distinctiveness of his teaching. His return to Freud’s text re-situated psychoanalysis within the epistemological challenges of our time. Lacan once again brought forth the radicality of the experience of the unconscious, with the complexity demanded by Freud’s transmission.
In Lacan’s school, the formation of the psychoanalyst is understood as a continuous process, without a predetermined endpoint. It is composed of one’s own analysis, study in small groups known as cartels, and supervision of clinical practice.
Experiences with various forms of subjective urgencies, throughout my ongoing training, have shown how Freud’s hypothesis of the unconscious allows, in treatment through speech, the articulation of events and experiences that exceed the individual, in what they intended with their words and actions. This excess tends to present itself enigmatically. The choice of psychoanalytic treatment stems from the creation of a space where it is possible to uncover what is relevant in this malaise and in its associated suffering