Please, Call the teacher! A Clinical Experience Report

Abstract

The article reflects on the possibility that the encounter with psychoanalytic theoretical concepts in the university may cause, in some students, a discomfort from what they ask for help to their psychoanalysis teachers. Being aware that, as teachers, we do not answer to them as their analyst, we believe, however, that we must stand up from the point of view of psychoanalysis. Aiming to support such position, an episode in which an undergraduate student locks herself in one of the rooms of the university calling for her teacher will be taken as a paradigmatic example of an experience that became clinical, beyond the domains of an analytical process.