École Freudienne de Paris

The École Freudienne de Paris (EFP) was a French psychoanalytic professional body formed in 1963, of which Jacques Lacan was a founding member.

Lacan was a member of the Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse (SPP), which was a member body of the International Psycho-Analytical Association (IPA). In 1953, after a disagreement about analytic practice methods, Lacan and many of his colleagues left the SPP to form a new group the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP). One of the consequences of this move was to deprive the new group of membership within the IPA. In the following years a complex process of negotiation was to take place to determine the status of the SFP within the IPA. Lacan’s practice, with his controversial innovation of variable-length sessions, and the critical stance he took towards much of the accepted orthodoxy of psychoanalytic theory and practice led, in 1963, to a condition being set by the IPA that the registration of the SFP was dependent upon Lacan being removed from the list of training analysts with the organisation. Lacan refused such a condition and left the SFP to form his own school which became know as the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP).

In 1969, a group disputing the EFP's accreditation process broke away to form the Organisation psychanalytique de langue française, also known as the "Quatrième groupe".

In January 1980 Lacan announced the dissolution of the EFP.

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On June 21, 1964, Jacques Lacan founded theÉcole française de psychanalyse (EFP, French School of Psychoanalysis), which, without changing its initials, was quickly renamed theÉcole freudienne de Paris (Freudian School of Paris). The meeting to found the new school was held in the home of François Perrier, the same place where the Quatrième Groupe (the Fourth Group, an offshoot of the EFP) would be founded in 1969. The gathering was attended by about fifty members of the Société française de psychanalyse (SFP, French.