Jacques Lacan:Biography

1964

21 June

Lacan foundes the École Freudienne de Pariss ([[EFP}}). According to the Acte de fondation, the central aim of the EFP is to restore psychoanalysis to its true function by making rigorous critique of all deviations and compromises which threaten its future development. That function is inseparable from the training of analysts who will be able to "reconquer" psychoanalysis. Membership implies active participation in the work of small study groups. The EFP is organized on the basis 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 dedicated to surveying the Freudian field (continuous commentary on the psychoanalytic movement, articulation with related sciences, ethics of psychoanalysis).