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[[Lacan ]] gave a talk at [[Sainte-Anne ]] (30) for the centenary of [[Freud]]'s [[birth]], and he wrote this article for the special issue of [[Etudes ]] Phi/osophiques. From the start, his [[position ]] is clear: "To use the [[terms ]] by which Freud defined [[[analytic ]] [[experience]]] not as precepts, but as [[concepts ]] that are appropriate for th~se terms." In a rather Manichaean way, this polemical [[text ]] assails Jhe unfaithful and their nullity (they are accused of not having elaborated "a single new [[notion]]"), while seriousness and lyricism are on Lacan's side. He is the only faithful one in his audacity: "The operation that consists in waking up, an operation based on the [[words ]] of the [[Master ]] in a [[return ]] to the [[life ]] of his [[word]], can be equated with the care for a decent sepulchre." Lacan was never done attacking "the [[others]]." Hence, when he rewrote hi~