In 1951, Juan José López Ibor noted that, at least since 1945, there had been those who considered psychoanalysis to be “definitivamente muerto. Polvo y ceniza”, then declaring: “el ciclo psicoanalítico está terminado”. And yet, there it is… What is most striking about this, and other cases, is that it does not make the slightest difference if an idea, theory or doctrine is intellectually refuted and destroyed: once conceived, its survival will depend on other factors than its solidity in the intellectual field.