[Training at the "Société française de Psychanalyse" and at the "Association psychanalytique de France": a history of discontent in analytic culture].

The history of training at the Société française de Psychanalyse, and later in the Association psychanalytique de France, coincides in fact with that of the psychanalytic movement in France over the past forty years. It has been marked by two scissions, in 1953 and in 1964, in which the questions of training and teaching were central issues. The first was caused by the creation of an Institut de Psychanalyse within the framework of the Société psychanalytique de Paris, and by deeply divergent ideas concerning the statutes of this Institut; this scission led to the founding of the Société française de Psychanalyse. The second scission resulted from conflicts of opinion on the subject of Jacques Lacan's analytic practice and negotiations concerning the admission of the Société française de Psychanalyse into the International Psychoanalytic Association; it led to the founding of the Association psychanalytique de France and of the Ecole freudienne de Paris, the latter comprising the followers of Lacan. Since 1972 the Association psychanalytique de France has implemented reforms concerning its training programme, the main aim of these reforms being to free therapeutic analysis from the supervision of the institution by doing away with the notions of didactic analysis and training analyst. Now the selection of candidates only takes place once a request has been made for supervision.