Discipliner la psychanalyse ? Enjeux et effets de sa place dans le champ universitaire en psychologie clinique

Abstract

ContextFrom their place as teachers and researchers involved in the training of students in clinical psychology, the authors, sensitive to changes in speech and thus in discourse, identify the effects of these in the current academic context. ObjectivesThe authors propose to re-examine the relationships and links between university and psychoanalysis in the light of the changes that have been affecting for several years, the one that was until then its shelter: clinical psychology. MethodBy the contextualization of the issues that have historically prevailed in creating and nurturing the links between psychoanalysis and university, the authors take a route that brings them, since the initial question raised by Freud in 1919, to refocus their remarks on the hexagonal situation from 1947 and the inaugural enterprise of Lagache to bring psychoanalysis to university through clinical psychology. The hypothesis of linking the changes affecting clinical psychology with a movement tending to make psychoanalysis an academic discipline serves as a common thread for discussion. ResultsThe relationships between psychoanalysis and university are, in France, consubstantially linked to those between psychoanalysis and clinical psychology, historically constructed on a salutary conflict guaranteeing the “indomptibility” of psychoanalysis. Since Lagache's proposal, the Experimental University of Vincennes, Censier and the University of Paris 7, the route taken by the authors reveals the complexity of the issues that agitate the movements around the place of psychoanalysis at the university and sheds light on what they describe as a process of “disciplinarisation”. If, in this regard, Laplanche's project met a very particular aim, this movement today could be favored by the semantic shifts that affect clinical psychology and no longer allow it to be circumscribed in a clearly identifiable disciplinary sub-space. ConclusionFollowing the example of what can be found in the titles of the Master, the path is open for a psychoanalysis, which, occupying the place of a university discipline, becomes quite different in the space left vacant by the erasure of clinical psychology.