ABSTRACT
Freud's noisy admirers or denigrators did not fail to attract among their public the attention of hospital professionals or academics, thanks to whom psychoanalysis in France would take root and develop, though not without difficulty, on both clinical and theoretical levels. There is a way of speaking about the history of psychoanalysis in France that sometimes takes a rather scornful view of the small cautious steps of this penetration of psychoanalysis and that takes pleasure in stressing the incomprehension of the young doctors who were the first elements of it. After the mini-storm of the split of 1953, psychoanalysis in France seemed to rapidly take up again the course of a history marked by its persistent and triumphant conquest of the traditional hospital and academic bastions. The end of the war saw the rebirth in France, as in the rest of the world, of a psychoanalysis that had undergone considerable modifications.
