The transmission of psychoanalysis combines an accomplishment of the mind related to an ideal of functioning and an infinite acculturation that includes psychoanalytic training itself. All training involves a transference of authority, but also negative tendencies that have consequences for our capacity to become and remain analysts, as well as for institutional functioning. The splits in psychoanalytic societies are frequently associated with the training of psychoanalysts, whatever the training model. A psychoanalytic ethic based on a masochism of restraint is transmitted that is opposed to these extinctive tendencies. No one can become and remain an analyst alone; but nor can anyone become an analyst through the institution alone. The oscillations between the individual superego and the cultural superego, between the regressions of the sessions and those of other scenes outside the session, are the basis of the possibility of becoming and remaining an analyst.