Psychoanalytic transmission between power and ethics

Abstract

The authors muses, what is the appropriate transmission of psychianalytic ethics? It circumbscribes some differences in the mode
of transmission of each vertice of the tripod: personal analysis,
supervision and transmission of theory; and highlights the risks derived from the inescapable transference assymetry in which
power dynamics come into play.
The desire to have an all-knowing master who cannot be disputed may be the biggest obstacle in the training of a psychoanalyst, since the demand often is to find accurate knowledge that appeases the anguish of the lack of self. If analysts, supervisors and
teachers aren’t open to questioning their own knowledge, and more importantly aren’t open to questioning the mode of transmission, they can perpetuate assymetries of infantilizing nature. The risk is that in the mode of transmission itself, the enjoyment of power and submission of one and all, slips through.
The author suggests reviewing the place of psychoanalysts, supervisors and teachers, and reviewing the articulation of the self
subjectivity. Making the private work public in a new, testimonial, mode of psychoanalytic transmission.