Letter to Rudolf Loewenstein : 14th July 1953 : Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on July 14, 1953
Rudolf Loewenstein, who was Lacan’s training analyst from 1932 to 1938, was also the analyst of the two other principles referred to in this letter, Sacha Nacht and Daniel Lagache. Born in Poland, Loewenstein would emigrate to New York during the War, where he would be a principal proponent of ego psychology.
Daniel Lagache, a psychoanalyst and Sorbonne professor, was a proponent of integrating psychoanalysis into a general theory of psychology. He saw in the University the institutional ethos best suited for guiding the organization of the practice of psychoanalysis.
Translation and notes by Jeffrey Mehlman
p53 to 68 of ‘Jacques Lacan, Television & A challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment’ : Edited by Joan Copjec : W. W. Norton & Company : 1991. Most of the documents in this collection were previously published, along with others, as supplements to Ornicar?, the journal of the Champ freudien: La scission de 1953 appeared in October 1976 as supplement to no. 7 and ‘L’excommunication’ in January 1977 as supplement to no 8.
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Related texts:
Conference Report, SIR : Inaugural meeting of SFP, Paris : 8th July 1953 : Jacques Lacan or here
Minutes of the meeting of the International Psychoanalytical Association : 30th July 1953 : Dr Heinz Hartmann (IPA President & Chairman of the Meeting) or here
By Rudolph Loewenstein : here
Sacha Nacht & Jacques Lacan :
From Wikipedia : Société Française de Psychanalyse : Despite wishing himself to avoid a split, Lacan was drawn into the dissident movement led by Daniel Lagache, as a result of his own separate dispute with the president Sacha Nacht over his practice of “short sessions”.
La psychanalyse d’aujourd’hui : 1956 : under the direction of Sacha Nacht is criticised by Jacques Lacan in Seminar IV : 21st November 1956 & also The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan.
See The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan or here
& Seminar IV : Relation to an Object 1956-1957 : from 21st November 1956 : Jacques Lacan or here for further information.
Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst in Earl’s Court, London
7th December 2018 : To request a copy of any text whose weblink does not work, contact Julia Evans: je.lacanian@icloud.com : For fuller details, see Notice : Availability of texts from LacanianWorks by Julia Evans or here
Further posts:
Lacanian Transmission here
Some Lacanian history : here
Of the clinic : here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud : here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
Jacques Lacan in English or here
Translation Working Group here
Use of power here
