Unwrapping the Psychoanalytic Education; On Orienting Candidates with Freud
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Published online on February 27, 2026
Abstract
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This paper argues that, despite being highly educated, psychoanalytic candidates need a particular orientation to become students of the strange and offensive unconscious, to help them learn to work together in the pursuit of the repressed. In this paper, ...
This paper argues that, despite being highly educated, psychoanalytic candidates need a particular orientation to become students of the strange and offensive unconscious, to help them learn to work together in the pursuit of the repressed. In this paper, ...