Annie Tardits studied Philosophy at the Ecole Normal Superieure. She is a Freudian psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. She has published a number of studies on psychoanalytic theory and practice and on psychoanalysis and artistic creation (in particular her paper in 'Joyce and Lacan', edited by Jacques Aubert, and a paper on psychoanalysis and anthropology in 'Lacan and Levi-Strauss in 1956' in the review 'Figures de la Psychanalyse'.

• Introduction -- The First Analysts -- The Berlin Model -- The Introduction of Training: Crises and Debates -- From one Training to Another -- The Training of the School -- The Apparatuses of the School