Changes

1980- SEMINAIRE DISSOLUTION (DISSOLUTION SEMINAR)-1980

On January 5, 1980, Lacan wrote a letter in which he proclaimed the disso�lution of the E.F.P. He sent it to the members of his ecole and also to the daily newspaper Le Monde, so that it could be made public. At the same time, he invited those who wanted to "go on with Lacan" to "join together once again." Lacan would sort out the requests for the new ecole to come. Ambig�uously, he seemed to want to leave ("in order to be Other at last" and so that "the Other is missing") and he was already planning a new organization. The criteria was clear: "I don't need many. And there are many whom I don't need." It was in fact to a single person, "the only one who knows how to read me," that Lacan wanted to bequeath the institution as a property that he owned. However, the small group rapidly became "the one thousand of

Dissolution

Because Lacan was old and ill, seminar 27 was not delivered publicly but only published. It dealt with the dissolution of his school,École freudienne de Paris (Freudian School of Paris).