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→6. Jacques Lacan to Louis Althusser
=6. Jacques Lacan to Louis Althusser=
''This Monday, 1-6-64''
Dear Althusser,
I preferred not to run the risks of the Italian mail—and during these holidays—and toward a rather remote spot, I believe—for my wishes to reach you.
I myself am leaving today for six days in Rome (Enrico Castelli<ref>Enrico Castelli, an Italian theologian, was the organizer of a colloquium held in Rome from January 7 to January 12, 1964, on the subject "technique and casuistry." A summary of Lacan's interventions at that colloquium appeared under the title "Du Trieb de Freud et du désir du psychanalyste," in Ecrits (Paris: Seuil, 1966), 851–54. On the encounter between Paul Ricoeur and Lacan on the occasion of that colloquium, see E. Roudinesco, La Bataille de cent ans, 2:398–405.</ref> Colloquium; do you know that extraordinary individual[?] German theologian + Ricoeur + Waelhens + etc. around: technique, casuistry, and eschatology [sic].) Well, it's madness, but I hope to relax there.
Here is my card.
With the same hand, I am sending an invitation for M. Flacelière,<ref>Reference is to the director of the Ecole Normale Supérieure.</ref> but there is a secretary, I believe. Would you tell my wife her name—in order to invite her as well?
''Believe me your''
''Lacan''
=7. Jacques Lacan to Louis Althusser=
