Continuer à inventer la psychanalyse

Abstract

The main risk of psychoanalysis is that it be “insularized”, as Eric Kandel already noted in 1998. To avoid this situation, the psychoanalysts present at the University must tackle three complementary tasks: to organize at the university contradictory debates, encouraging students to critically examine concepts and putting into practice those that seem most important for understanding the world that is coming, and finally integrating the contributions of other disciplines into psychoanalysis courses. In other words, there is an urgent need to create what are now called dual curricula, with the neurosciences of course, but also with historians, sociologists and ethnologists. So that psychoanalysis remains open, alive and attractive.