To consider psychoanalysis as a medical speciality seems to be a constricting point of view. The concepts of psychoanalysis permit, and indeed require, a wider horizon. The author, as a psychoanalyst, a psychiatrist, educator and student of human behaviour, feels some concern over the question of whether or not psychoanalysis is having an optimal impact on the crucial problems of today's world. He deplores the isolation of psychoanalysis from the university setting. There was a certain sense of disillusionment with the apparent inability of the psychoanalytical power-structure to put psychoanalytic academic investigation and education ahead of the preparation for psychoanalytic practice and the pursuit of practice. A precious commodity like psychoanalysis ought not to be controlled by organizations of private practitioners, but by the most creative minds of society which are found within the university. The author advocates the integration of psychoanalytic research and education in university departments, which should be independent but not isolated.