Abstract
The aim of the text was to explain at least partially the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and the university. We tried to outline the beginning of the dialogue between psychoanalysis and the university in the person of a hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi.
This initial attempt to integrate psychoanalysis into the university for historical and political reasons failed and psychoanalysis was forced to follow its own path and shape its own program and model of education. After Nazism came to power in Europe, a significant number of analysts emigrated to the US, where psychoanalysis became psychiatric mainstream for some time, but at the same time too totalitarian, excluding non-medical experts from its circles.
After this relative success at universities, psychoanalysis is pushed to the background again by new paradigms. Subsequently, we tried to point out the current state of psychoanalysis at universities and its possible incompatibility with the academic system by its very nature.