La psychanalyse à l’université : de la monstruosité apparente à la proposition d’une refondation anarchitecturale

Abstract

ContextThis collective article is about an important concern of psychologists, clinicians and researchers engaged in a psychoanalytical approach: the disappearance from university of a science which has its place, but which seems ineluctably led to the exit door. ObjectivesOur purpose is to highlight the need of keeping psychoanalysis alive as a plural science at the university. MethodAccounting for the classical and contemporary criticisms of psychoanalysis – as practice(s), research method(s) and theory(ies) of psychic functioning – we will discuss the intra-, inter- and extradisciplinary pitfalls making a “monster” out of it. ResultsAfter identifying psychoanalysis’ internal pitfalls and urgent transformations, we will question the possibility of refounding the psychoanalytical construct. Our proposals will ground on anarchitecture, metaphorizing the efforts of deconstruction and reconstruction to renovate “the house of psychoanalyses”. ConclusionThrough this “house”’s anarchitectural qualities, we will show the relevance of some transformations, at several levels. Our discipline needs some work to enhance its intelligibility and to preserve its primary function: letting the subject enter the scene and giving voice to subjectivity.