The article deals with the most important of the psychoanalytic societies, which have existed in Denmark from around 1930 and up to the present time. There have been two main directions in Danish psychoanalysis, a direction having emerged more or less spontaneously inside the cultural left movement and which later on had its second prime in connection with the student revolt, and a direction implanted from the outside as a direct derivative from The International Psychoanalytical Association. The first direction has had its force in its social engagement and in the application of psychoanalysis to a long series of fields, but it has had difficulties in establishing a proper therapeuticpractice. The second direction has tried to observe the instructions from the international association, but in return has had difficulties in adapting to the specific Danish cultural basis. Therefore its impact has been small until the latest decades.Artiklen omhandler de vigtigste af de psykoanalytiske foreninger, der har eksisteret i Danmark fra omkring 1930 til nutiden. Der har været to hovedretninger i dansk psykoanalyse, nemlig en retning der er opstået mere eller mindre spontant inden for den kulturradikale bevægelse, og som siden fik en ny blomstringsperiode i forbindelse med studenteroprøret, og en retning, der er indpodet udefra som en direkte aflægger af den internationale psykoanalytiske forening. Den første retning har haft sin styrke i det samfundsmæssige engagement og i anvendelsen af psykoanalysen inden for en lang række fagområder, men har haft vanskeligt ved at etablere en forsvarlig terapeutisk praksis. Den anden retning har søgt at efterleve kravene i den internationale forening, men har til gengæld haft vanskeligt ved at tilpasse sig det specifikke danske kulturgrundlag, hvorfor dens gennemslagskraft indtil de seneste årtier har været ringe
