Abstract
Focusing on a moment in time, 1968, when the revolutionary spirit seized the public will, this article explores the differences in the reception of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the mental health system, contrasting two discourses fifty years apart: then and now. I first present the case of La Borde clinic, a psychiatric institution in Cour-Cheverny, France, which incorporated a Marxist-Lacanian approach in the treatment of those suffering from mental illness. I compare this clinic with current globalized, evidence-based psychotherapies, whose main approach consists of the implementation of cognitive-behavioural modalities that deploy what Lacan calls the “university discourse.” I aim to provide some insight on the critiques and possibilities of these two radically opposed responses to human suffering.
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