PSYCHOANALYSIS AND UNIVERSITY: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FORMATION OF THE ANALYST AND TEACHING IN THE UNDERGRADUATE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY

Abstract

This article is a reflection on which finds its inspiration in the author's experience teaching courses in Psychology of Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública (Bahia School of Medicine and Public Health). This is a writing that seeks to think of matters relating to the teaching of psychoanalysis in an undergraduate degree in Psychology, comparing them with elements referred to the process of formation of an analyst. For this, the author reflects on the condition of the analyst in the position of professor of a Psychology course, highlighting aspects of teaching and transmission in psychoanalysis. Some concerns listed by Freud about  "lay" psychoanalysis are updated, which allow us to see how psychoanalysis is, at once, theory, method and procedure for working with psychic processes, i.e., it is a clinic. At the same opportunity to update the discussion, contemporary issues posed by analysts in recent articles are brought to reflection, aimed at questioning the theme from aspects such as dealing with the truth in the discourse of the university, and the place of mastery, points that reverberate in questions that the author herself does, weaving weights on the ethics and practice. Finally, some experiments mentioned are considered fruitful to the use of theoretical psychoanalysis, and indicated certain conditions that have shown a favorable learning of psychoanalysis that preserves its status of being simultaneously a theory and clinic for working with psychic processes.