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The decorum of this memorial tones down the attacks against [[Jones]] who had been called the "little [[child]] of [[psychoanalysis]]." After a few personal and historical reminders, [[Lacan]] tackles the [[theoretical]] divergences. If he pays homage to Jones for choosing [[Freud]] against [[Jung]], he also stresses his numer�ous mistakes, especially concerning the function of [[language]]. For [[symbolism]] one must [[substitute]] [[Symbolic]]: "As the [[need]] is submitted to the [[demand]], it is the [[concrete]] incidence of the [[signifier]] that, by repressing [[desire]] into the po�sition of [[being]] misknown [meconnu], gives its [[order]] to the [[unconscious]]." Many pages address the question of the [[phallus]]. The [[author]] attacks Jones's articles on [[sexual]] [[difference]] (1927 and 1932) and his address to the [[Society]] of [[Vienna]] (1935), in which, joining "Melanie [[Klein]]'s genetism of [[fantasies]]," he would have largely contributed to misleading all [[psychoanalytic]] [[thought]] in the direction of symbolism. Only Lacan's 1953 [[Discourse]] in Rome would have finally broken the malevolent spell. The [[seminars]] often [[present]] Jones as "the champion of [[English]] feminists": he is accused of practicing "[[figure]] skating" in order to take the opposite view of Freud's positions on the [[phallic]] [[phase]], while claiming to be in perfect agreement. Elsewhere, his [[Protestantism]] seems to be [[responsible]] for his "misconstructions" [meconnaissances]. In any [[case]], he did not see that "the only [[notion]] that allows [[understanding]] of the symbolism of the phallus is the specificity of its function as signifier" and "as signifier of [[lack]]" (39, 41). However, in the end he is saved in spite of himself. His study on Punchinello truly reveals the winged phallus, the "un�conscious [[fantasy]] of [[male]] desire's impossibilities, the treasure in which wom�an's infinite [[impotence]] [impuissance] is exhausted."