What makes someone a psychoanalyst? In the recent controversies about psychoanalysis, not one writer - whether for or against - has turned their attention to the issue of how psychoanalysts are trained. In this brilliant polemic, Moustapha Safouan, one of France's foremost psychoanalytic thinkers, argues that Jacques Lacan's notorious attempt to transform the process of training was the wholly appropriate, even if finally unsuccessful, response to a stifling institutional legacy which prevails to this day. Only a radical reappraisal of the training process will give back to psychoanalysis its true inspirational status. In her introduction, critic and feminist Jacqueline Rose argues in turn that by ignoring the question of training, recent interest in psychoanalytic theory in the humanities has severed psycho-analysis from the most .political aspects of its history. Jacques Lacan and the Question of Psychoanalytic Training represents one of the most significant interventions into the contemporary history of psychoanalysis.

Introduction by Jacqueline Rose Jacques Lacan and the Question of Psychoanalytic Training; 

translated by Jacqueline Rose Index

MOUSTAPHA SAFOUAN graduated from the University of Alexandria in philosophy in 1943 and came to Paris to continue his studies at the Sorbonne immediately after the end of the war. In April 1946, he started a personal analysis which became training, with Dr M. Schlumberger, and began practising analysis under Jacques Lacan's supervision by the end of 1949. His involvement in psychoanalysis became definitive when Lacan started his teaching in 1951, introducing his famous distinction between the symbolic, the imaginary and the real. Except for five years (1953-8) spent in Nasser's Egypt, during which he translated into Arabic the Interpretation of Dreams and worked as a reader at the University of Heliopolis, he has continued to practise analysis in Paris where he also published a number of books, including Aetudes sur l'Oedipe: L'inconscient son scribe (of which there is an unpublished English translation by Martin Thom, entitled Dream Rhetorics). 

JACQUELINE ROSE is Professor of English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She was the editor (with Juliet Mitchell) and translator of Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Aecole Freudienne; her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, and States of Fantasy.

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