Medicalization of Psychoanalysis
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Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing' · Adrian Johnston · p.33
**1** > <span id="page-28-0"></span>**4 A. Johnston**
Theoretical move: Johnston argues that Lacan's polemic in "The Freudian Thing" diagnoses ego psychology's Americanization of psychoanalysis as a structural inversion of the proper analyst-analysand knowledge-relation, in which the analyst's surrender to the transference demand to occupy the position of "subject supposed to know" constitutes the fundamental betrayal of Freud's discovery of the unconscious.
This medicalization of the profession both turns upside down the true knowledge-link between analyst and analysand by replacing it with the doctor-patient one as well as cuts off the Freudian field from its interdisciplinary roots.