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Lacan was especially interested in their work with small groups. Rather than being organized around the presence of an authority figure with whom they were supposed to identify, these groups were centered on activities. (A group forms round a task or activity, indicating a different sort of identificatory process.) This sensitivity to problems of identification was praised by Lacan and he claimed that Britain's success in the war was in no small part a consequence of introducing such ideas to the military.
=====EditReturn to Freud=====From [[{{Y}}#1951|1951]], [[Lacan]] held a weekly [[seminar]] in which he urged what he called a [[return]] to [[Freud]]. (He advocated a careful rereading, focusing on the constant reference to language and its functions in Freud's work.) The ''Interpretation of Dreams'', the ''Project'' of 1895, ''The Psychopathology of Everyday Life'' and ''Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious'' all deal with operations which are fundamentally of a [[linguistic]] nature, from associations between words to the very [[structure]] of [[symptoms]] themselves.
[[Freud]] had already spoken of "''symptoms joining in the conversation''" as early as 1895. (A patient might have sudden pains at precise moments in her [[speech]]. The pain would indicate that something had been left unsaid, showing how physical sensations themselves could be [[linguistic]], sending a [[message]] to be picked up by the [[analyst]].)
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