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'Psychoanalytic Teaching and Research: Knowing and Knowing About' 66k
When Martin Stanton and Bernerd Burgoyne founded THERIP, a Higher Education Network for
Research and Information in Psychoanalysis, I was asked (along with Malcolm Pines, who
soon drifted away) to act as a sort of 'uncle' figure. As can be seen from the talk I gave
at the innaugural conference, I had high hopes for it as a non-sectarian organization. I
sat on the committee loyally for seven years and attended practically every meeting, even
though the organization left much to be desired. I left when it became unmistakable that
only one voice was being heeded, an unvarying agenda was being pursued, Lacan and ___, and
a form of sectarianism was entrenched. No other committee member was willing to hold out
for a more pluralistic programme. The talk casts its net wider and reflects on issues in
the broader psychoanalytic subculture. It was published in Free Associations (1993)
Volume 4, Part 1 (No. 29): 129-37.
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