ABSTRACT
This chapter explains some of the coordinates for the emerging debates over the role of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice in psychology and elaborates some ways of mapping the conditions of possibility for the emergence of psychoanalysis inside psychology, now as part of 'our' own conceptual apparatus for defining and treating modern subjectivity. Psychology undergraduate textbooks in the English-speaking world tend to represent Freud's writings as rather archaic remainders in the distant history of the discipline. Powerful historical forces eventually pressed the IPA into a shape that was protective of psychoanalysts but not of psychoanalysis as such; as with the operation of any defence mechanisms, protection led to distortions and then to the sedimentation of the distortions such that anything that questioned its own particular orthodoxy was viewed as a threat. Psychoanalysis started with the attempt to conceptualize and treat hysteria.
