this article deals with the difficult relationship between psychoanalysis and the university, having as its starting point the questioning of a productive practice in the academy that appears in symptomatic form in the depreciation of books in relation to articles. Such symptom reveals, in its analysis, the return of the capitalist discourse in the scope of the university discourse; departing from that, science in general and Psychology in particular are reviewed, having as reference Lacan's concept of Real.
Psychoanalysis; University; Book; Article