Founding Act : 21st June 1964 : Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on June 21, 1964
Quote: ‘This is one of three texts where Jacques Lacan deals with the structure of a psychoanalytic organisation:
1) 1964: a) The founding act b) Adjunct to the founding act c) Preamble to the founding act
2) 1967: The proposal on the analyst of the School : Information here
3) 1973: The Italian Note : Information here
Quote from Cormac Gallagher, www.lacaninireland, (Full copy available here)
‘In 1964, Jacques Lacan reformed his analytic society, calling it L’École Freudienne de Paris.’
From Lacanian Works : ‘Brief Biography of Jacques Lacan‘ : available here.
Publication of The Founding Act:
The text, first published untitled in a mimeographed form in June [21] 1964, was printed for the first time in the 1965 Yearbook of the Freudian School of Paris, accompanied by the “Supplementary Note” and the “Preface”. The note dated 1971 [28 February] and the Preamble were published in the 1977 Yearbook of the Freudian School of Paris.
See Note for the Year Book : 28th February 1971 : Jacques Lacan or here
Publication of ‘The Founding Act’ in English:
1) Translated by Cormac Gallagher: published at www.lacaninireland.com : and available here.
Preamble to the founding act: translated by Cormac Gallagher: published at www.lacaninireland: and available here.
Adjunct to the founding act: translated by Cormac Gallagher: published at www.lacaninireland: and available here.
2) Translated by Jeffrey Melhman:
published October Vol 40 : 1987 : p96-105 : Available from www.LacanianWorksExchange.net / lacan
Reprinted p97-106 of ‘Television: a challenge to the psychoanalytic establishment’ edited by Joan Copjec, W. W. Norton & Company, 1990 : See here
3) Translated by, probably, Russell Grigg:
Published at the web-site of the London Society of the New Lacanian School: available here.
4) For all three translations see Richard G. Klein’s website, www.Freud2Lacan.com, available here
See also Note for the Year Book : 28th February 1971 : Jacques Lacan or here
Publication of ‘The Founding Act’ in French:
‘Acte de fondation de l’école de Paris – 21 Juin 1964’, Annuaire de l’École Freudienne de Paris, 1971.
Subtitles :
1) – SECTION FOR PURE PSYCHOANALYSIS,
3) – SECTION FOR APPLIED PSYCHOANALYSIS, which means for therapeutics and clinical medicine.
3) – SECTION FOR REVIEWING THE FREUDIAN FIELD.
Adjunct to Founding Act
1 – THE DIDACTICIEN.
2 – APPLYING TO THE SCHOOL.
3 – DIDACTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS.
4 – DIDACTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE PARTICIPATION IN THE SCHOOL
5 – ENGAGEMENT IN THE SCHOOL.
6 – THE STATUS OF THE SCHOOL.
7 – THE SCHOOL AS INAUGURAL EXPERIENCE.
PREAMBLE
Note for the Year Book : 28th February 1971 : Translated by Anthony Chadwick : See Richard G. Klein’s website, www.Freud2Lacan.com, available here
Publication of ‘The Founding Act’ in French:
‘Acte de fondation de l’école de Paris – 21 Juin 1964’, Annuaire de l’École Freudienne de Paris, 1971.
Further texts
Jacques Lacan here
Some Lacanian history here
Dossier on the Institutional Debate, An Introduction : 1990 : Joan Copjec or here
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Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst in Sandwich, Kent & London
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Note : If links to any required text do not work, check www.LacanianWorksExchange.net. If a particular text or book remains absent, contact Julia Evans.
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Further posts:
Groups & cartels : here
Some Lacanian history : here
Lacanian Transmission : here
Of the clinic : here
Topology and the Lacanian clinic : here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud here
Or by Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
By Julia Evans here
Other texts
Dossier on the Institutional Debate, An Introduction : 1990 : Joan Copjec or here