Société Française de Psychanalyse
The Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP) (French Psychoanalytic Society)
was a French psychoanalytic society
founded on June 18, 1953.
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan was a founding member of the SFP.
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
