The Spanish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ángel Garma - exiled in Argentina after the Spanish civil war - was one of the founders and first president of the Argentinian Psychoanalytical Association (APA). Garma unsuccessfully tried on three occasions to become a university lecturer. His final attempt was in 1965, when he opted for a professorship in Deep Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires. In Ángel Garma's personal archive, the manuscript of the exercise he submitted in this professorship bid has been located. The aim of this article is to analyse this document, to search for clues to allow us to understand the author's relationship with his own work and to explain the priorities and interests he intended to show in the university environment. The first part of the article analyses the contents of the professorship exercise, challenging them against the published work and reviewing the fundamental lines of Garma's psychoanalytical thought (child sexuality, psychoanalysis and psychosomatic medicine, the psychoanalytical institution, etc.). The second part suggests the main reasons why Garma failed in his attempts to become a university lecturer.