Passage (pass) - a procedure for the recognition of a psychoanalyst established by Jacques Lacan at his Freudian School of Paris. After the passage, the subject received the status of “school analyst” and could start his own clinical practice.
The passage was described by Lacan in his speech “Une procédure pour la passe” on 10.10.1967, and his procedure was developed in detail in the late 1960s. Even then, he makes it clear that the passage is not only a psychoanalytic ritual, but also a political act that opposed the Freudian didactic psychoanalysis to the training of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), which consists in obtaining the required 600 hours of didactic psychoanalysis (which is considered sufficient to work out your symptom ), 400 hours of experience and 400 hours of supervision. The education of a psychoanalyst, as Lacan believed, cannot be a universal and automated procedure for obtaining status, so the passage was conceived by Lacan as a de-institutionalization of psychoanalysis.