Knowledge and power: psychoanalysis and clinical work

Every theory involves and contains in itself contradictions, struggles and tensions that derive from the context of society, therefore, when a theory is affirmed, this means the outcome of the struggles, i.e. that certain positions have prevailed to the detriment of others. Explicating these positions, bringing them "to the surface" is a valid contribution to knowledge and thought, but these positions, which are positions of strength, in most cases remain hidden, disguised, appear in disguise, have been erased from the scene and removed. Psychoanalytic institutions have a responsibility for the training they give, for the psychoanalytic model that they envisage and for the operations they carry out, and it is inevitable that all this implies underlying struggles for hegemony. Struggles that are not free of material implications and from which our work space cannot be considered exempt. This clarification is at least valid to underline our inevitable implication, certainly not because there is a place that is excluded from it, but because specifying its contours gives us the illusion of a greater freedom and the exercise of a possible ethics.