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This chapter is an explication of the thirteenth section (“The Training of Analysts to Come”) of “The Freudian Thing.” This final section brings Lacan’s 1955 écrit to a close by outlining what psychoanalysis would look like in the future if it were to be renewed by the “return to Freud” advocated here and elsewhere. Lacan envisions replacing the narrow specialization of an analytic training inappropriately modeled on medical schooling with a broadly interdisciplinary approach to forming analysts closer to the model of a liberal arts education. Additionally, detailed readings of Freud’s texts informed by this broad educational background are essential in Lacan’s vision of analytic training. Finally, Lacan calls for analysis perpetually reinventing itself in response to ever-ongoing changes in its socio-cultural surroundings.
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Johnston, A. (2017). The Training of Analysts to Come. In: Irrepressible Truth. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57514-8_13
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