This article takes as its object the formation of the university teacher, turning its attention to the elucidation of the following issues: a) the developments in the understanding of the nature of the path to be followed so as to instill in the university teacher under formation a will oriented towards the act of teaching, developments that can be assessed from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis; and b) the configuration of "turning points" after which a subject under formation builds a singular place where it is possible to develop a work proper to an university teacher. The text postulates the need to go beyond what we have been calling "turning points", so as to allow those walking the path of formation to become university teachers to create a space conducive to the exercise of teaching, thereby instating the possibility of re-inventing themselves. To such end, we make use of the concept of "identification" - such as seen in Lacanian psychoanalysis - to elucidate the experience acquired during 2005 with the Teaching Improvement Program (PAE) in two disciplines (whose students come chiefly from the undergraduate course in Linguistics of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP) with a total dedication of 120 hours each (60 hours of classes and 60 hours of supervised work).
University teacher education; Singularity; Identification