The implantation of psychoanalysis in Lebanon dates back to the 1970s. Although it is not a distinctive model, it has specific characteristics such as that of being born of parents of the Old Continent and of having been raised on Middle Eastern soil, saturated with colourful cultures and fertile in the matter of security shake-ups. When reference points are shaken by external reality, it results in an alloying of traditional psychoanalysis, post-Freudian advances and technical variations. In this article the author retraces the most significant moments of history, a substantial part of which is devoted to the issues relating to affiliation of a Lebanese group to the IPA: structural conflicts and clarifications. Lebanese multi-theoretical overdetermination finds a favourable echo in an international organization open to diverse currents of thought and a continually reinvented clinical practice.

A last and short part is concerned with studies on psychoanalysis in times of war and on multilingualism in analysis.