Analytic training can be considered in two aspects, form and structure, each giving the training a specific process and a defined goal. Form pursues the establishment of analytical competence; structure aims at developing analytical capacity. Form and structure imply a different conception of subjectivity and process of subjectivation required to produce it, and each has a rule that functions as a norm. However, the normativity of form is different from that of structure: the former is conceivable according to the cognitive-rational canon; the latter can be thought as an example of the notion of normativity of the living, applied to the psychic domain. The balance between the two components of training constitutes the precarious and historically conditioned necessity of psychoanalytic training.

KEYWORDS: Capacity, competence, normativity, psychoanalytic training, standardization.