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=====Freudian Legacy=====
The whole of [[Lacan]]'s work can only be understood within the context of the intellectual and theoretical legacy of [[Sigmund Freud]] (1856-1939), the founder [[father]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
=====Betrayal of Freud=====However, [[Lacan]] first trained as gradually began to develop a radical critique of the way that most [[psychoanalystanalyst]] within s in the [[International Psychoanalytical AssociationIPA]] (had [[IPAinterpretation|interpreted]]), the organization founded by [[Freud]] which presented itself as the sole legitimate heir to the Freudian legacy.
Reading [[Freud]] in the original German allowed [[Lacan]] to discover elements which had been obscured by poor translation and ignored by other commentators.
=====Post-Freudians=====
Thus much of [[Lacan]]'s work is taken up with detailed textual commentaries on specific works by [[Freud]], and by numerous references to the work of other analysts whose ideas [[Lacan]] refutes.
To understand [[Lacan]]'s work, therefore, it is necessary both to have a detailed understanding of [[Freud]]'s ideas and also a grasp of the way these ideas were developed and modified by the other analysts (the 'post-Freudians') whom Lacan criticizes.
These ideas are the background against which [[Lacan]] develops his own "[[return to Freud]]."
<Blockquote>What such a return [to Freud] involves for me is not a return of the repressed, but rather taking the antithesis constituted by the phase in the history of the psychoanalytic movement since the death of Freud, showing what psychoanalysis is not, and seeking with you the means of revitalizing that which has continued to sustain it, even in deviation...<ref>{{E}} p. 116</ref></Blockquote>
'''[[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]]''' might therefore be described as a "[[Freud|post-Freudian]]" form of [[psychoanalysis]], along with '''[[ego-psychology]]''', '''[[Kleinian psychoanalysis]]''' and ''[[object--relations theory]]'''.
=====Reading of Freud=====However, this is not the way [[Lacan]] sees his [[work]].
[[Lacan]] argues that there is a deeper logic at work in [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|texts]], a logic which endows those [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|texts ]] with a consistency despite the apparent contradictions.
[[Lacan]] claims that his [[interpretation|reading ]] of [[Freud]], and his alone, brings out this logic, and shows us that "the different stages and changes in direction" in [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work ]] "are governed by Freud's inflexibly effective concern to maintain it in its primary rigour."<ref>{{E}} p.116</ref>
In other words, while [[Lacan]]'s reading of [[Freud]] may be as partial as any other in the sense that it privileges particular aspects of [[Freud]]'s work, that is not, in [[Lacan]]'s view, justification for regarding all interpretations of [[Freud]] as equally valid.
Thus [[Lacan]]'s declarations of loyalty and accusations of '''betrayal ''' cannot be seen as a mere rhetorical strategy.
Certainly, they do have a rhetorico-political function, in that presenting himself as '"more Freudian' [[Freud]]ian" than anyone else allowed [[Lacan]] to challenge the effective monopoly on the Freudian ''[[Freud]]ian legacy '' that the [[IPA]] still enjoyed in the 1950s.
However, [[Lacan]]'s statements are also an explicit claim to have teased out a coherent logic if [[Freud]]'s writings that no one else had perceived before.