In the same spirit of my post about the present glorious times of a world going through change I want to add a couple of short paragraphs.

I was in Portugal lately. I followed a very significant European political event: the electing of the Parliament of the EU 28 countries for the next five years. Over 500 million subjects (old friends a foes) electing more than seven hundred representatives based on each country's independent political system. No procedural glitches, whatsoever. The dazzling thing is the role of the young is playing in the  different countries and changing the face of the world there. The greens got rid of the central right and left parties. One of the leaders of the new movement is a 16 years old young woman with all the bright, mature, self confidence that we did not see in the "seasoned" politicians of Brexit  and anti-Brexit. A child of Eight manged to make Starbucks stop plastic straws. In the US we  watched something similar but on a smaller scale when school shooting happened and issue of the climate were mentioned in opposition to the knowledge and wisdom of Trump and his likes. The call for free education, health services, substantive changes in social justice is gaining recognition and strength in the States by pressure coming from teenagers and young people.

This is more than a phantasy for a guy who lived and still remembers the war in Europe and in East Asia, initiated by "old experienced politicians" (Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin, Franco, Charles De Gaulle, Mao, Minh, etc.). In history, the history of of any human issue, the young start the revolutions and  pressure for change but the old usurp the revolutions, and here we go again. But it seems that this is not happening anymore. The young are moving and holding to the reigns of power.

 Could we see something similar in psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is also dying like old politics. We, old analysts,talk about the need for change and we just give it a lip service (maybe this the only part we could still move). Young analysts  learned only the old analysis we taught them, in the same archaic institutes system, and infused in them the distorted image of the training analyst. The desperate needs for modernizing psychoanalysis expressed in "schools" were even more destructive because the schools were not dealing with the subject of analysis; they were distortions in its practice: from empathy to inter-subjectivity. The schools are the old hanging on to the straws that were  the first indication of a sinking psychoanalysis.
  
Young analysts have no ideology to call a revolution and renewal. How could they assume the leadership in changing psychoanalysis or holding back the old dying psychoanalysis? They should know that we have nothing to offer, so they have to look at two things: why they want to be analysts, and that analysis is not matter of training. It is a knowledge, a theory of "something", and they will find it in psychoanalytic literature not in training based on transmitting knowledge from a person to person. Is it too much to expect a generation of psychoanalysts who say that we will stop doing analysis as psychotherapy and we will look for new, different, meanings to the act of psychoanalyzing? "We want to be analysts because it is knowledge we aspire to learn, not a profession we want to practice. It is too much to find enough young analysts who are trained by us-the old parochial-training analysts, who would say out loud: analysis is not psychotherapy?? Analysis is....something else and we will find ways to learn it. There are some actual analysts who are knowledgeable of what psychoanalysis is who would extend a helping hand.

The hope-and there should be some left- is some psychoanalysts who hold academic positions will bring it where they work as academics, making it an academic issue and not a 'professional' matter. The hope is to take reign  of matters and not leave it to us the old cadre. We will not allow But even resist) our ways to be pushed aside and a new true knowledge of psychoanalysis emerge.
Things change, that is the normal course of events. Change needs new and daring people who know what is wrong with the present and take that as the starting point of finding the future. 
Why not psychoanalysis too?