ABSTRACT
The Weimar Republic offered suitable conditions for the establishment of the first psychoanalytic institution. It was a continuation of a movement initiated during the war, when psychoanalysis was applied to the therapy of traumatic neuroses. In the wake of the stench of scandal that had surrounded the beginnings of psychoanalytic practice, there came the moment for the analysts to set something up and make themselves socially useful. In 1923, the Berlin Institute decided to standardize and unify the organization of psychoanalysis for didactic purposes. Authoritarian directives and strict regulations were put in place to protect psychoanalysis from the danger of its bastardisation. The break with the standard established by the superego that linked psychoanalysts to the cult of the dead father was the crux of Jacques Lacan’s separation from the IPA. The questioning of truth by the Freudian discovery implies that psychoanalysis is not a means of achieving happiness and success.
