ABSTRACT
Any praxis would appear to be composed of a certain number of concepts and the enactment of this conceptualisation. Theory first and then practice. Science then applied science. Psychoanalysis does not appear to depart from this general rule. It seems constituted first as a body of doctrine—whose foundations were given by Freud, and which were revised by his successors—and second as a clinical practice, whose responsibility would then be devolved to the various psychoanalyst practitioners.
