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Are psychoanalysis and psychology different disciplines?
The discipline that is concerned with the formations of subjective identity, with its rigidities and its fragilities, its illusions and its functions, seems to be a discipline that is particularly susceptible to the vagaries of its own collective identity. This has been the story of psychoanalysis. We all know the history of excommunications, of debates on the one true way, of wrangles about membership played out, and still playing out, in our professional organizations as well as outside of them in the legal domain.
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