Société Française de Psychanalyse

The Société Française de Psychanalyse ('SFP) (French Psychoanalytic Society)

The Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP)

was a French psychoanalytic society

founded, formed on, in June 18, 1953.

(of which Jacques Lacan was a founding member)

following the resignation of Jacques Lacan

from the Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse (SPP)

Lacan was a member of the Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse (SPP)

which was a member body of the International Psycho-Analytical Association (IPA).

In 1953

after a disagreement about analytic practice methods

Lacan (and many of his colleagues) left the SPP to form (a new group) the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP).

IPA

In the following years

a complex process of negotiation was to take place to determine the status of the SFP within the IPA'.

Lacan's practice

with his controversial innovaiton of variable-length sessions

and the critical stance he took towards much of the accepted orthodoxy of psychoanalytic theory and practice

led (in 1963) to a condition being set by the IPA that the registration of the SFP

was dependent upon Lacan being removed from the list of training analysts within the organization.

Lacan refused such a condition and left the SFP to form his won school

(which became known as the)

École Freudienne de Paris (EFP).

The members of the S.F.P. disbanded in 1963 and

announced the group's dissolution in 1964

See Also

• Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP)
• Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse (SPP)
• École Freudienne de Paris (EFP)
• International Psycho-Analytical Association (IPA)