ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is the consciously given placebo for the scientific political and psychological correctness that promises us the ultimate Good. In order to safeguard the Frenchman in psychic distress against the charlatans, the Accoyer Amendment intended to restrict the practice of psychotherapy to psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. Jacques-Alain Miller, who headed the resistance, argued among other things that a diploma is not a guarantee against deontological faults or psychological weaknesses. Alain-Gerard Slama also referred to the courtroom, where, during certain trials, psychologists are held ready should the jury break down while listening to so many atrocities. Psychology and psychologization are the return of the repressed of the structural problem of psychoanalysis, and of modernity tout-court. It is the analysis of this strange synergy of the postmodern state and the psy-apparatus engaging in a thorough psychologization that is missing in the Millerian critiques.
