Transmission and ethics in psychoanalysis

Abstract

Based on the work carried out over four years as coordinator of the Commission of Training and Transmission of Psychoanalysis
of Fepal, the author rescues fermental aspects of the debates and controversies brought up in pre-congresses, educational congresses and institute meetings, to continue with new reflections, the dialogue initiated with members and candidates – training analysts, predominantly from the Fepal Institutes.
The concept of transmission is discriminated from that of training and education, in the understanding that the former refers
to the unconscious dimension that must necessarily draw a mark, in the long process of acquiring analytical identity in the
three pillars of the tripod.
The epochal changes are taken into consideration, as well as the socio-cultural contexts in which each Association and Institutes
are immersed; essential changes and contexts when thinking about training programs whose central axis is the transmission of psychoanalysis.
What the effects of theoretical pluralism might have  is questioned, when presented as a sum of theories hindering the
enriching and favoring power of personal thinking.
Addressing the setting and its analytical function, as a starting point of all analytical processes, while also supporting the different
elements of the method, allows the author to question the limits of their variations and updates in order to preserve the transmission of psychoanalysis.