Editing Jacques Lacan (section)

===1960s===
Starting in 1962, a complex negotiation took place to determine the status of the SFP within the IPA. Lacan's practice (with its controversial indeterminate-length sessions) and his critical stance towards psychoanalytic orthodoxy led, in August 1963, to the IPA setting the condition that registration of the SFP was dependent upon the removal of Lacan from the list of SFP analysts.<ref>"Minutes of the IPA: The SFP Study Group" in ''Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment'', pp. 79–80.</ref> With the SFP's decision to honour this request in November 1963, Lacan had effectively been stripped of the right to conduct training analyses and thus was constrained to form his own institution in order to accommodate the many candidates who desired to continue their analyses with him. This he did, on 21 June 1964, in the "Founding Act"<ref>Lacan, J., "Founding Act" in ''Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment'', pp. 97–106.</ref> of what became known as the [[École Freudienne de Paris]] (EFP), taking "many representatives of the third generation with him: among them were Maud and Octave [[Maud Mannoni|Mannoni]], [[Serge Leclaire]] ... and Jean Clavreul".{{r|n=Roudinesco 1997|r={{cite book | last=Roudinesco | first=Elisabeth | title=Jacques Lacan | publisher=Polity Press | publication-place=Cambridge | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-7456-1523-3 | oclc=37852095}}|p=293}}

With the support of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] and [[Louis Althusser]], Lacan was appointed lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He started with a seminar on ''[[The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]]'' in January 1964 in the Dussane room at the [[École Normale Supérieure]]. Lacan began to set forth his own approach to psychoanalysis to an audience of colleagues that had joined him from the SFP. His lectures also attracted many of the École Normale's students. He divided the École Freudienne de Paris into three sections: the section of pure psychoanalysis (training and elaboration of the theory, where members who have been analyzed but have not become analysts can participate); the section for applied psychoanalysis (therapeutic and clinical, physicians who either have not started or have not yet completed analysis are welcome); and the section for taking inventory of the Freudian field (concerning the critique of psychoanalytic literature and the analysis of the theoretical relations with related or affiliated sciences).<ref>Proposition du 9 octobre 1967 sur le psychanalyste à l'École.</ref> In 1967 he invented the procedure of [[The Pass (psychoanalysis)|the Pass]], which was added to the statutes after being voted in by the members of the EFP the following year.

1966 saw the publication of Lacan's collected writings, the ''Écrits'', compiled with an index of concepts by Jacques-Alain Miller. Printed by the prestigious publishing house [[Éditions du Seuil]], the ''Écrits'' did much to establish Lacan's reputation to a wider public. The success of the publication led to a subsequent two-volume edition in 1969.

By the 1960s, Lacan was associated, at least in the public mind, with the far left in France.<ref>[[French Communist Party]] "official philosopher" [[Louis Althusser]] did much to advance this association in the 1960s. Zoltán Tar and Judith Marcus in ''Frankfurt school of sociology'' {{ISBN|0-87855-963-9}} (p. 276) wrote that "Althusser's call to Marxists that the Lacanian enterprise might ... help further revolutionary ends, endorsed Lacan's work even further." Elizabeth A. Grosz writes in her ''Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction'' that "Shortly after the tumultuous [[May 1968 in France|events of May 1968]], Lacan was accused by the authorities of being a subversive, and directly influencing the events that transpired."</ref> In May 1968, Lacan voiced his sympathy for the student protests and as a corollary his followers set up a Department of Psychology at the [[Paris 8 University|University of Vincennes (Paris VIII)]]. However, Lacan's unequivocal comments in 1971 on revolutionary ideals in politics draw a sharp line between the actions of some of his followers and his own style of "revolt."<ref>Regnault, F., "I Was Struck by What You Said..." ''[[Hurly-Burly (journal)|Hurly-Burly]]'', 6, 23–28.</ref>

In 1969, Lacan moved his public seminars to the [[Paris Law Faculty|Faculté de Droit (Panthéon)]], where he continued to deliver his expositions of analytic theory and practice until the dissolution of his school in 1980.