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Some people believe that [[psychoanalysis]] has the medical model of [[treatment]] and [[cure]]. The social acceptance of [[analysis]] seems to be based on the idea that it can provide [[cure]]s. If this is the case it is part of [[medicine]]. | Some people believe that [[psychoanalysis]] has the medical model of [[treatment]] and [[cure]]. The social acceptance of [[analysis]] seems to be based on the idea that it can provide [[cure]]s. If this is the case it is part of [[medicine]]. | ||
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If the goal of [[analysis]] is not [[cure]], what is it? [[Lacan]] believed that the direction of analysis ought to lead towards a verbalization of the [[unconscious]]. | If the goal of [[analysis]] is not [[cure]], what is it? [[Lacan]] believed that the direction of analysis ought to lead towards a verbalization of the [[unconscious]]. | ||
| + | <!-- Lacan was strongly opposed to the SPP's requirement that analysts undergo medical training and saw psychoanalysis as much more closely aligned to philosophy and the arts, and later to mathematics, than to medicine. From the outset Lacan's work was rooted on the one hand in clinical work but on the other in a broader cultural understanding of the unconscious and mental illness. Unlike Anglo-American psychiatry and psychology, the French tradition has always retained a more poetic or aesthetic element. This may be just one further reason why it became so pervasive in Humanities departments in the 1970s. --> | ||
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Revision as of 06:33, 8 November 2006
Some people believe that psychoanalysis has the medical model of treatment and cure. The social acceptance of analysis seems to be based on the idea that it can provide cures. If this is the case it is part of medicine.
In contrast, Lacan tried to introduce a break between psychoanalysis and medicine. He said that his theorization had nothing whatever to do with medicine or even with natural science. Psychoanalysis did not have as its goal curing patients; if people in analysis did get better, it was a welcome side-effect.
If the goal of analysis is not cure, what is it? Lacan believed that the direction of analysis ought to lead towards a verbalization of the unconscious.
