Abstrakt
The aim of this paper is to explain at least partially the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and the university. I have tried to outline the beginning of the dialogue between psychoanalysis and the university in the person of a Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi.
His initial attempt to integrate psychoanalysis into the university failed for both historical and political reasons, forcing psychoanalysis to follow its own path and shape its own program and model of education. After Nazism came to power in Europe, a significant number of analysts emigrated to the US, where psychoanalysis was perceived as psychiatric mainstream for some time, becoming at the same time too totalitarian and excluding non-medical experts from its circles.
After this relative success at universities, psychoanalysis was once again pushed to the background by new paradigms. Finally, I have tried to point out the current state of psychoanalysis at universities and its possible incompatibility with the academic system by its very nature.