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| ''[[Acte ]] de fondation''<BR>Founding act

According to the ''Acte de fondation'', the central aim of the [[EFP]] is to restore [[psychoanalysis]] to its [[true ]] functin by making a rigorous critique of all the deviations and compromises which threaten its [[future ]] [[development]].

Membership implies [[active ]] [[participation ]] in the [[work ]] of small study groups.

The [[EFP]] is organized on the basis fo of [[three ]] sections, each of which is [[divided ]] into three subsections: pure psychoanalysis ([[doctrine]], training and supervision), applied psychoanalysis (doctrine of [[treatment]], casuistics, [[psychiatric ]] information) and a section devoted to surveying the [[Freudian ]] field (continuous commentary on the [[psychoanalytic ]] movement, articulation with related [[science]]s, [[ethics]] of [[psychoanalysis]]).

<blockquote>"I hereby found the Ecole Française de [[Psychanalyse]], by myself, as alone as I have ever been in my relation to the psychoanalytic cause."</blockquote>

The Ecole Française de Psychanalyse was soon to become, under the same initials, the Ecole Freudienne de [[Paris]].

Very rapidly, [[people ]] started talking of the [[Lacan]]ian [[School]], which defined itself by the haughty admission of its [[isolation]], its conception of [[psychoanalysis]] as a [[cause]] to be defended, its faithfulness to a [[name ]] -- [[Freud]] -- and to a [[body ]] of [[texts]], its appeal to disciples gathered in a [[School]] where they could militate in favor of the [[truth ]] of a doctrine taught in [[seminar]]s, its crusade against the unfaithful, and its "movement of reconquest" for which [[Lacan]] [[needs ]] "determined [[workers]]."

The organization of the [[school|école]] in three sections revealed the [[theoretical ]] choices.

The first section, the most prestigious, was called "the section for ''pure psychoanalysis'', or praxis and doctrine of [[psychoanalysis]] properly [[speaking]], which is [[nothing ]] but ''didactic'' [[psychoanalysis]]."

It was the lively [[place ]] of theoretical elaboration, which was not reserved for physicians alone.

Therapeutics and [[clinical ]] [[practice ]] were separated from it; they formed the section for ''applied psychoanalysis'' that was open to physicians even if they had not been psychoanalyzed.

As for the [[third ]] section, it was linked to the [[seminar]]s and to the research of the E.P.H.E. and the E.N.S.; it was the section for ''taking inventory of the Freudian field'' that studied the [[analytic ]] movement and its publications, its articulation with related [[sciences]], and, curiously, the [[ethics]] of [[psychoanalysis]].

The novelty and the open-mindedness of the enterprise are clear but the [[notion ]] of a "pure psychoanalysis," so institutionalized and isolated, was soon going to create a problem.