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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' than anyone else allowed [[LAcanLacan]] to challenge the effective monopoly on the Freudian 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.
