The School of Aliveness & Adulthood was established in 1994. It is the result of 20 years of research conducted by its founder, Dr. Maryse Touboul, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Paris.

The School of Aliveness & Adulthood teaches a new psychoanalytical technique,
which consists of concerning ourselves more
with how to feel good than with why we feel bad.

The School of Aliveness & Adulthood consists of:

Learning to detach ourselves from a language that gives value to suffering (caused by lack of the other), to obeying the Laws of the Other, and to the absoluteness of Symbolic past time; and learning another language that values desire for the self, obeying the Laws of Life, and relativity of Real present time.


Structuring our Instinct for Life and our Conscious Desire to feel Alive, to be able to give meaning to the time that goes by, and to leave existential boredom behind.


Preferring responsibility for our actions to guilt from our reactions, and entering an energy of life, which brings a feeling of well-being.


Transferring what happens on the couch to real life, and replacing the patient's transference on the analyst ("subject supposed to know") with a relationship between the patient and what he/she needs to accomplish; so the patient can make of his/her questions, of this "I don't know", the real subject of the analysis.

"I am what I make of myself"

The Values of Life can then take priority over the Death Drive, which makes time the enemy of life: But life is the Consciousness of Real Time.

What are the origins of the School of Aliveness & Adulthood?
The School of Aliveness & Adulthood owes its existence to a reflection on Freud's, Lacan's and Einstein's theories, which inspired and allowed its creation.

Freud: The Discovery of the Unconscious
Freud named the Unconscious, and made the "Oedipus murder" the focal point of psychoanalysis, stamping the destiny of every individual with a tragic and guilt-inducing symbolic meaning, causing the meaning of life to become unattainable.

Lacan: The Discovery of the Symbolic Language
Lacan discovered the key to the Symbolic Language, to its deadlocks and to our "alienation" from the Unconscious' signifiers. Lacan perfectly expressed to what extent we are stuck in a language when he said, "We are spoken."

Einstein: The Discovery of Real and Relative Space-Time
Based on his experimentation on the physical and non-mythical laws of nature, Einstein taught us and made us understand that everything that is real is relative. Without being conscious of it, he found the key to a future of Humanity and Aliveness.

The School of Aliveness & Adulthood: The Discovery of the Laws of Life
Based on Freud's, Lacan's and Einstein's findings, Dr. Maryse Touboul asked herself the following questions:

How to move away from this torturing guilt, and progress toward the possibility of a life that chooses reality instead?

How to distance ourselves from this transmitted Symbolic Language, which forces us to stay unaware of our desire to feel alive? How to move from being spoken to speaking?

How to apply Einstein's truth to relationships, to love? And most importantly, how to make it prevail over the hate and inhumanity of the Symbolic Language? How to move away from this Inhumanity and move closer to Humanity?

The School of Aliveness & Adulthood came as the answer: Its essential principles are to apply Einstein's Laws of Real and Relative Space-Time to psychoanalysis, and to make them become the Laws of Life, which will allow everyone who follows them to finally end their dependence on the Laws of the Other.