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The [[Founding Act ]] - 21 June 1964Jacques [[Lacan]]See article in original [[language ]] - [[Acte ]] de fondation - 21 juin 1964 - [[French]]

I hereby found -as alone as I have always been in my relation to the [[psychoanalytic ]] [[cause]]- the French [[School ]] of [[Psychoanalysis]], whose direction I will personally assume for the next four years, which [[nothing ]] currently prohibits me from answering for.I intend this title to [[represent ]] the organism in which there is [[work ]] to be accomplished-work which in the field [[Freud ]] has opened restores the cutting edge of its [[truth]]; which brings the original praxis that he instituted under the [[name ]] of psychoanalysis back to the [[duty ]] that in our [[world ]] is incumbent upon it; which, through a sustained critique, denounces the deviations and compromises that encumber its [[progress ]] while degrading its use.This [[objective ]] of our work is inseparable from the [[training ]] to be dispensed within this movement of reconquest. That is, those that I have trained myself are admitted as fully qualified, just as anyone who can contribute to demonstrating that the [[experience ]] of this training is well-grounded is invited to join.Those who enter this School will undertake to fulfil a task that is [[subject ]] to both [[internal ]] and [[external ]] supervision. In [[exchange ]] they are assured that nothing will be spared in [[order ]] that anything valuable they do gets the attention it deserves and in the appropriate [[place]].To carry out this work we shall adopt the [[principle ]] of sustained elaboration in small groups. Each group (we have a name to designate [[them]]) will be composed of at least [[three ]] [[people]], five at most, four is the [[right ]] [[balance]]. PLUS ONE [[responsible ]] for the selection, the [[discussion ]] and the outcome to be accorded to the work of each.After a certain period of functioning the elements of the group will find themselves invited to permutate into [[another ]] group.The [[position ]] of [[responsibility ]] will not constitute a hierarchy for which service rendered might be capitalized into access to a higher grade, and no one will have to [[regard ]] himself as demoted for entering into the rank of work at the base.For the [[reason ]] that every personal endeavour will place its [[author ]] under [[conditions ]] of critique and supervision to which all work undertaken will be submitted in the School.

We will [[form ]] three sections whose progress I will assure along with two collaborators who will second me in each.

1. Section for pure psychoanalysis, or praxis and [[doctrine ]] of psychoanalysis properly [[speaking]], which is and is nothing but-this will be established in its [[time ]] and place-training [[analysis]].The urgent problems to be raised concerning all issues of [[training analysis ]] will find a way forward here through a sustained confrontation between persons who have the experience of training and candidates in training. Its raison d’être is based on what there is no reason to conceal: namely, the [[need ]] resulting from professional requirements whenever they lead the [[analysand ]] in training to adopt responsibility that is [[analytic ]] to any degree.It is in the context of that problem and as a special [[case ]] that entering into supervision is to be situated. This is a prelude to defining this case on criteria [[other ]] than the impressions of all and the prejudices of each. For it is known that such is its only law currently, when violations of the rule implicit in the observance of its forms are rife.From the outset and in each case qualified supervision will be assured within this framework for the training [[analyst ]] in our School.The characteristics whereby I myself break with the stated standards of training [[practice ]] will be proposed for study, as will the effects imputed to my teaching on the course of my [[analyses ]] when it is the case that my analysands attend in the capacity of students. Included therein, if necessary, will be the only impasses to be retained from my position in such a School, namely, the impasses that the induction my teaching aims at providing would engender in its work.

- Supervision of [[analysts ]] in training.

Finally, I posit that this section, Section 1, and also the section whose destination I will indicate in part 3, will not limits its recruitment to medical qualifications, pure psychoanalysis not [[being ]] in itself a therapeutic [[technique]].

2. Section of applied psychoanalysis, which means of therapeutics and [[clinical ]] [[medicine]]Medical groups will be admitted to this section, whether composed of psychoanalyzed [[subjects ]] or not, provided they are capable of contributing to the psychoanalytic experience; through the critique of its indications and its results; by testing the categorical [[terms ]] and [[structures ]] that I have introduced as maintaining the course of [[Freudian ]] praxis-and this in clinical examinations, in nosographical definitions and in the very positing of therapeutic projects.

- The doctrine of [[treatment ]] and its variations

- [[Psychiatric ]] information and medical explorations

This section will first take responsibility for reporting on and critically assessing everything that is offered by publications in this field in which they [[claim ]] to be authorized.It will undertake to bring up to date the principles from which analytic praxis must receive its status within [[science]]. A status which, however [[particular ]] it has to be recognized as having, cannot be that of an ineffable experience.Finally, this section will call upon what, concerning [[structuralism ]] installed in particular [[sciences]], can throw light on the one whose function I have demonstrated in our own to inform and also to [[communicate ]] our experience-and in the opposite [[sense]], what, concerning our own [[subjectivation]], these sciences can receive as complementary inspiration.Ultimately, a praxis of the [[theory ]] is required, in the [[absence ]] of which the order of affinities delineated by the sciences we call conjectural will remain at the mercy of this [[political ]] drift which inflates itself by means of the [[illusion ]] of [[universal ]] conditioning.

- [[Ethics ]] of psychoanalysis, which is the praxis of its theory.

In the first [[instance ]] a yearbook will publish the titles and abstracts of works of the School, wherever they have been published-a yearbook in which will appear, at their [[request]], anyone who has fulfilled a function in the School.

Admission initially will be decided by me without taking into account any positions taken by anyone in the [[past ]] towards me personally, sure as I am that, concerning those who have [[left ]] me, it is not I who has it in for them but they who have it in for me all the more because they are unable to [[return]].My response to the rest will only concern what I can presume or observe on the basis of the group’s [[value ]] and the place it initially intends to fulfil.

There is no [[necessity ]] for members to implement the entirety of this plan for it to work. I don’t need a long [[list]], just dedicated [[workers]], such as those I already [[know]].