ABSTRACT
The goal of psychoanalysis is complex; this cannot be more clearly defined or made explicit than as an aspiration on the part of the analysand and the analyst to promote autonomy, knowledge, emancipation, and health and to liberate the individual from some limitations and suffering. In the analytic situation we try to reach dyad-specific knowledge, which must be differentiated from accumulated knowledge where the goal is to create general formulations. The psychoanalytic process arises in a mutual interaction between analysand and analyst. It is highly important to understand how psychoanalytic competence is developed and maintained. Psychoanalytic training was institutionalized 1922 at the Berlin Congress. It is often claimed that the tripartite system of psychoanalytic education is the best available, yet we know that it produces a kind of a theological seminar and a trade-school atmosphere that spawns practitioners and not scholars or researchers and that it often stifles creativity and questioning.
