ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is one of those great theories that affected the western culture in a radical way. It was the main formative theory of the individual (the subject), a conception that was absent in all previous civilizations, and has become the core of modern humanistic societies. Although psychoanalysis was critiqued, changed, displaced, and replaced, and its title usurped by the “contemporary” theories, it is still a main formative theory of the western culture. Contemporary psychoanalyses, at best, did not propose anything that came close to its glorious past and enduring present. It is important to underscore that the contemporary analysts, who express in no uncertain ways their dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis, do not declare it dead, and insist that it is still alive in their theories. However, the most they can claim is having better clinical theories. Their
claims are debatable and doubtful because their best-so calledclinical theories, have no models of psychopathology that are essential in any clinical practice, and no system of diagnosis that is the foundation of any clinical endeavour.
