Issue 10: Editorial

In the field of psychoanalysis, more so than in any other discipline, the tension between 'instituting' analysis and 'institutionalising analysis is palpable and never more so than when the ethics of its praxis rear up to counter the demand that it conform to a format which is acceptable to the prevailing cultural structure in which it finds itself. To meet with the demand that it take unto itself the identifying features, - the uniformity, - of a profession like any other so that it would be 'at ease' in society, would certainly miss the rendezvous with the disease inherent to civilisation itself and the effect of socialisation.…