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| 1964
| ''Acte de fondation''<BR>Founding act
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The solemn tone of the opening is well known:
<blockquote>"I hereby found the Ecole Française de Psychanalyse, by myself, as alone as I have ever been in my relation to the psychoanalytic cause."</blockquote>
The Ecole Française de Psychanalyse was soon to become, under the same initials, the Ecole Freudienne de Paris.
Very rapidly, people started talking of the [[Lacan]]ian [[School]], which defined itself by the haughty admission of its isolation, its conception of [[psychoanalysis]] as a [[cause]] to be defended, its faithfulness to a name -- [[Freud]] -- and to a body of texts, its appeal to disciples gathered in a [[School]] where they could militate in favor of the truth of a doctrine taught in [[seminar]]s, its crusade against the unfaithful, and its "movement of reconquest" for which [[Lacan]] needs "determined workers."
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The organization of the [[school|école]] in three sections revealed the theoretical choices.
The first section, the most prestigious, was called "the section for ''pure psychoanalysis'', or praxis and doctrine of [[psychoanalysis]] properly speaking, which is nothing but ''didactic'' [[psychoanalysis]]."
It was the lively place of theoretical elaboration, which was not reserved for physicians alone.
Therapeutics and clinical practice were separated from it; they formed the section for ''applied psychoanalysis'' that was open to physicians even if they had not been psychoanalyzed.
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As for the third section, it was linked to the [[seminar]]s and to the research of the E.P.H.E. and the E.N.S.; it was the section for ''taking inventory of the Freudian field'' that studied the analytic movement and its publications, its articulation with related sciences, and, curiously, the [[ethics]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
It seemed to be open to whomever supported the [[Lacan]]ian principles.
The novelty and the open-mindedness of the enterprise are clear but the notion of a "pure psychoanalysis," so institutionalized and isolated, was soon going to create a problem.
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* [[Acte de fondation]]
