ABSTRACT
Every analyst has first followed another profession. Sigmund Freud was a biologist and a medical neurologist before he discovered the fundamental facts of human psychic nature that are the foundations of psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge and a therapy for neurosis. Institutes have admitted to training, for some time, applicants who are already medical doctors, clinical psychologists or social workers with few exceptions. Not a few of these few exceptions are academics. The Freudian theory of the Oedipus complex traces its origin to a precocious instinctual libidinal development that is etiologically independent of, while being bound up in child-parent and parent-child relations. Philosophy can also contribute more substantively to psychoanalytic theorizing. There is a basic disagreement between Freud and M. Klein concerning the awareness of death and, hence, of annihilation anxiety in infants and children. The subjectivity of I. Kant’s transcendental deduction of space, time and the categories of understanding is of the species rather than the individual.
