ABSTRACT
The fact remains that putting psychoanalysis in the singular is becoming more and more of a problem, in the singular, with the fragmentation of associations and doctrines. A text like Jacques Lacan's "The direction of the treatment and the principles of its power" might make us think that this is the case. The discourse on the unconscious is a condemned discourse, for there is no coherence of discourse which the unconscious does not undermine. Certainly, in S. Freud's work there are formulations that have a touch of the scientist about them, but no scientific inspiration could ever have given birth to psychoanalysis. Three theses are knotted: there is no politics of psychoanalysis without a conception of psychoanalysis and of the subject that it treats. Today the term "ethics" is, alas, well and truly overused by analysts, who sometimes don't hesitate to cloak themselves in it, but nevertheless, it retains its value.
