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Referring to a personal experience of the violent rejection of psychoanalysis by an institution and to the general observation of its decreasing representation and influence in the spheres of care and academia, the author looks at the sources of this unleashing of destructiveness. The institution, at the crossroads of the individual and the collective spheres, is a privileged object of study. Although there are a considerable number of analysts practising in these institutions, authors tend to devote little attention to them. The attachment to the Freudian method, promoted and deployed from The Interpretation of Dreams onwards, of working against resistances and remaining subservient to the dimension of infantile sexuality, nonetheless provides a release from certain resistances, from which the analysts themselves are not immune. “Putting Freud to work”, and particularly the contributions of Civilization and its Discontents, renews the observation that narcissism in its mortifying dimension is at the source of this destructive dynamic. The ways in which resistance is expressed in, to, of and by psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts can thus be described.