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Some [[people ]] believe that [[psychoanalysis]] has the medical [[model ]] of [[treatment]] and [[cure]]. The [[social ]] acceptance of [[analysis]] seems to be based on the [[idea ]] that it can provide [[cure]]s. If this is the [[case ]] it is part of [[medicine]].
In contrast, [[Lacan]] tried to introduce a break between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[medicine]]. He said that his theorization had [[nothing ]] whatever to do with [[medicine]] or even with [[natural]] [[science]]. [[Psychoanalysis]] did not have as its [[goal ]] curing [[patient]]s; if people in [[analysis]] did get better, it was a welcome side-effect.
If the goal of [[analysis]] is not [[cure]], what is it? [[Lacan]] believed that the direction of analysis ought to lead towards a verbalization of the [[unconscious]].
<!-- Lacan was strongly opposed to the SPP's requirement that [[analysts ]] undergo medical [[training ]] and saw psychoanalysis as much more closely aligned to [[philosophy ]] and the [[arts]], and later to [[mathematics]], than to medicine. From the outset Lacan's [[work ]] was rooted on the one hand in [[clinical ]] work but on the [[other ]] in a broader [[cultural ]] [[understanding ]] of the unconscious and [[mental ]] [[illness]]. Unlike Anglo-American [[psychiatry ]] and [[psychology]], the [[French ]] [[tradition ]] has always retained a more poetic or aesthetic element. This may be just one further [[reason ]] why it became so pervasive in Humanities departments in the 1970s. -->
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