Abstract: . . .  Freud’s term, from “Analysis Terminable and Interminable,” – impossible – under which he grouped psychoanalysis with government and education, “professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfactory results.” 16 Lacan’s take on this, however, hits the mark even closer: the analyst must be a saint. 17 This is the ethical attitude necessary for us to approach the unconscious. Key words: United States – Ego Psychology – Freudianism – recovered memories. 16 S. Freud, “Analysis Terminable and Interminable,” Standard Edition , op. cit. , 23: p. 248, 1964 (1937). 17 J Lacan, Television , Tr. D. Hollier, R. Krauss, and A. Michelson, New York, Norton, 1990, 15–16.  . . .
. . .  this clinical work have had formation or training, which allows us to bear that desire: our own analyses, the closely supervised work of our first analyses, long study, not just of psychoanalytic theory, but psychiatry, philosophy, literature, linguistics, art. If there is a purpose in the psychoanalytic institution, it is surely to promote such Page 11 11 Thomas Svolos: The Specificity of Psychoanalysis Relative to Psychotherapy pursuits. The latter can be best understood as the groundwork necessary to maintain awareness of the impossibility of the act of psychoanalysis . This is Freud’s term, from “Analysis Terminable and Interminable,” – impossible – under which he grouped psychoanalysis with government and education, “professions in which one . . .
. . .  institution, it is surely to promote such Page 11 11 Thomas Svolos: The Specificity of Psychoanalysis Relative to Psychotherapy pursuits. The latter can be best understood as the groundwork necessary to maintain awareness of the impossibility of the act of psychoanalysis . This is Freud’s term, from “Analysis Terminable and Interminable,” – impossible – under which he grouped psychoanalysis with government and education, “professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfactory results.” 16 Lacan’s take on this, however, hits the mark even closer: the analyst must be a saint. 17 This is the ethical attitude necessary for us to approach the unconscious. Key words: United States – Ego Psychology – Freudianism – recovered memories. . . .
. . .  formation or training, which allows us to bear that desire: our own analyses, the closely supervised work of our first analyses, long study, not just of psychoanalytic theory, but psychiatry, philosophy, literature, linguistics, art. If there is a purpose in the psychoanalytic institution, it is surely to promote such Page 11 11 Thomas Svolos: The Specificity of Psychoanalysis Relative to Psychotherapy pursuits. The latter can be best understood as the groundwork necessary to maintain awareness of the impossibility of the act of psychoanalysis . This is Freud’s term, from “Analysis Terminable and Interminable,” – impossible – under which he grouped psychoanalysis with government and education, “professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving . . .
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