Convertirse en psicoanalista en Francia

Abstract

Answering the question “how do we become a psychoanalyst?” is in the heart of the divisions of the psychoanalysis in France relating in particular to the most appropriate training. Leaning on a longterm fieldwork (6 years) in the social world of the Parisian psychoanalysts and a perspective of political sociology of the mental health, the aims of this article are: (i). to consider the psychoanalysis as a particular social movement divided into two poles and constituted by activist organizations in a political arena. Then the issue addresses how a self work’s career become, no without tensions, a type of activist’s career rather than a professional activity as such. (ii). To restore the complexity of the socialization of the psychoanalysts, its objective constraints and the type of moral career in the principle of the change of self