Psychoanalyst

• Psychoanalytic training is essential, and virtually never-ending. However, an analyst should develop faith in the speech more than confidence in his/her skills

• In psychoanalysis we (as analysts) see well that the operator (what makes the analysis possible) is the speech, more than the psychoanalyst.

• In the psychoanalytic conversation, an analysand talks to an analyst. However, a psychoanalyst should be aware that s/he is not the final addressee of the analysand’s communication, and so the analyst is not simply supposed to answer.

• A psychoanalyst is called to occupy a position that is not always gratifying (Freud assimilated the figure of the analyst to the surgeon whose only concern is for the operation s/he has to execute), and still is determined to hold that position and carry on the analysis.

• A person who believes him/herself a psychoanalyst is a fool. A (speech) act is defined as psychoanalytic only by the effects it produces

• A person who believes him/herself a psychoanalyst is a fool. One can be a psychoanalyst only if there is Other

• Saying "analyst's discourse" or even "psychoanalytic discourse" is hilarious; in fact, they are both paradoxical. The psychoanalyst should have no discourse at all. Similarly, psychoanalysis functions well as analysis of a discourse, but it is not a discourse itself. Psychoanalysis emphasizes the speech over the discourse.

• A person who believes him/herself a psychoanalyst is a fool. One can be a psychoanalyst only if there is Other.

• A person who believes him/herself a psychoanalyst is a fool. "Psychoanalyst" describes a position in a discourse, not an academic degree or an expertise

* I first presented these few considerations on my Facebook/Twitter pages. You are invited to follow me (Diego Busiol)