Cormac Gallagher – Lacan’s Summary of Seminar XI
 
THE LETTER 05 (Autumn 1995) pages 1-17
 
At a press conference during the Ecole Freudienne de Paris Congress in Rome in 1974, Jacques Lacan got involved in a question-and-answer session of a type guaranteed to set on edge the teeth of those not uncritically devoted to his cause.
 
Miss X: – Could you specify for us what distinguishes the Ecole Freudienne de Paris from other schools? 
 
J. Lacan: – We are serious. That’s the decisive distinction. 
 
Miss X: – The other schools are not...