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Dear Sir:
In Wallerstein's summary of the Fifth IPA Conference of Training Analysts, the word training, not surprisingly, occurs in virtually every paragraph.
It is striking at a time when many psychoanalytic educators are urging that the view of psychoanalytic institutes as trade schools be abandoned in favor of regarding them as centers of graduate-level studies, that the word training is still current. In English, typically, training relates narrowly to technical educational processes—when it is not applied to schools of animal obedience or to the toilet competency of children. In most other languages, the words used, in lieu of training (formation —French, Bildung —German, etc.) connote and denote processes of intellectual development and growth.
Perhaps the word training is too ingrained in English psychoanalytic jargon to be budged, and my view that we should, instead, speak and write of psychoanalytic education, didactic or educational analysts, etc. is utopian. Still, if language has some dialectical relationship to psyche, perhaps what may appear to some as merely an academic caveat is worthy of further discussion.
Sincerely Yours