Note to the Italians : April 1973 : Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on April 1, 1973
Publication of ‘The Italian Note’ in English
Note: Although this is usually translated as the Italian Note, it is more accurate to state ‘Note to the Italians’
A) Letter to three Italian Lacanians: Contri, Drazien and Verdiglione.
Translated by Jack W. Stone
Published by University of Missouri. Their site is here
Available here
This translation seems not to be available at the site : web.missouri.edu in September 2016. If anyone has a copy I would be most grateful if they would send it to je@LacanianWorks.net. Thank you.
In French, together with Jack W. Stone’s translation : here
This letter of Jacques Lacan was addressed in April 1973 to three Italian psychoanalysts: Verdriglione, Contri and Drazien.
B) The Italian Note
Published by www.LacaninIreland.com
Translated by Cormac Gallagher:
Available here.
See below for comments from this site
C) Note to the Italian Group,
Translated by Russell Grigg
in Analysis No.7, Centre for Psychoanalytic Research, Melbourne, 1997.
Published in French
i) Published in Spirales, 1981 no 9, p60 (Date given as 1974)
ii) Published in French at: Ornicar 25, 1982, Seuil (Date given as April 1973)
iii) In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001. See Autres Écrits: 2001 : Jacques Lacan : Information & availability here
General description
Quoted from Cormac Gallagher, www.lacaninireland, available here
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 - See ‘Founding Act’ 21st June 1964: Jacques Lacan or here
2) 1967: The proposal on the analyst of the School - See ‘Proposal of 9th October 1967 on the psychoanalyst of the School’: Jacques Lacan or here
3) 1973: The Italian note
A second description
From Jacques Lacan (Volume I) (RLE: Lacan): An Annotated Bibliography : By Michael P. Clark : Routledge
E249 “Directives” 1 April 1974 A4 p155-64
Addresses the problem of conducting an Italian school of psychoanalysis along Lacanian lines, and describes the principles according to which the formation of the analyst must take place. Among those principles Lacan mentions the absolute self-authorization of the analyst, which he describes as the cornerstone of Lacanian psychoanalysis; the distinction between the A.M.E. (l’Analyste Member de l’École) and the A. E. (l’Analyste de l’École); and the importance of les passeurs in the procedure of la passe. Reprinted with E250 as “Note Italienne” Ornicar? 25 (1982): 7-10
E250. “Lettre adressée à trois psychanalystes italiens” Dated 1974 (but see the version in Ornicar? Noted below). Spirales 9 (1981) : 60
Affirms the importance of la passe to any school based on the analytic technique developed by Lacan, and briefly describes other tenets crucial to the formation of an analyst
Reprinted in La lettre mensuelle de l’École de la cause freudienne 9 (1982) : 2. Also reprinted with E249 as Note italienne in Ornicar? 25 (1982) : 7-10, but this version is dated April 1973.
Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Earl’s Court, London
Other texts
Use of power here
Some Lacanian History : here
Topology : here
Lacanian Transmission : here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud : here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
