ABSTRACT

On the effect of psychoanalytic training and the analyst of the school, the people have "the proposition of 9 October 1967 on the psychoanalyst of the school". The analyst in the Lacanian orientation distances herself/himself from the position of the "subject supposed to know". This chapter explores the clinical implication of the analyst's position in today's practice of psychoanalysis. The analyst helps a subject, who complains about her/his symptom, to become an analysand during preliminary sessions and gives her/him a chance to open a door to an unknown. If an analyst sees all the cases presented to him as "a case presentation", he will not be able to listen and follow the logic of unconscious dynamic at play. The key to the door of going beyond this risks turning into a lock on the door, and the opportunity then being taken away from a subject who desires and deserves so much more than a treatment voucher.