The history of psychoanalytic thought was marked by the rapid evolution, in the space of a few decades, of a model which originally aimed to achieve, in the intentions of its founder, a greater and perhaps final freedom of thought into a theoretical and technical system dominated by criteria of religious observance, so to speak, rightly compared to the relational model of the Catholic Church. This was due both to the presence of a dogmatic doctrinal corpus and to the authoritarian character that has always marked its hierarchical relations and the transmission of its thought. All this has contributed to the final demise of any aspiration to a secular attitude within the official psychoanalytic movement, in favor of the creation of a closed and sectarian group spread throughout the West. Starting from an examination of the limitations of the “clerical” model, this paper aims to address the issue of achieving a secular dimension of psychoanalysis and of its teaching.