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Of Course I'm Not A Racist ... But

Helen Sheehan

Issue 27 — Spring 2003

113–121

On the 3rd December 1969 Lacan was questioned by a member of a rather rowdy audience of over 800 people at the University of Vincennes, where he gave his first impromptu lecture. The question ran as follows 'People talk about a New Society. Will psychoanalysis have a function in that New Society and what will it be like'?[1] The 60's in general and in particular the late 60's had witnessed an increasing call for new freedoms.…

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