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On [[Chronology|November 18, 1953]], [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] held his first public [[seminar]] at [[Sainte-Anne Hospital]] -- soon after the establishment of the ''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[SFP]]).
It was addressed explicitly to fellow [[analyst]]s, as it concerned questions of [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic technique]] -- those of [[resistance]], [[transference]] and [[interpretation|therapeutic efficiency]] .
The [[seminar]] includes lengthy discussions of the [[clinic]]al and [[theory|theoretical work]] of contemporary [[psychoanalysts]] such as [[Michael Balint]] and [[Melanie Klein]], as well as [[St Augustine]] and [[Jean-Paul Sartre]].
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It also contains [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]]'s early formulation of the [[imaginary]].
[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] develops his [[matheme|schema]] of the [[inverted bouquet]] (''[[Bouquet renversé]]''), as well as his concept of the [[mirror stage]], as part of the [[topology|topography]] of the [[Imaginary]].
He appeals to the [[science]] of [[optics]] to [[formalization|systematize]] his previous analyzes of the [[specular image|specular relation]].
He associates the "misconstruction" [''[[méconnaissance]]'') that characterizes the [[ego]] with [[negation]] (''[[dénégation]]'').
