The School as intended by Jacques Lacan has psychoanalysis as its object. It provides training, guarantees the psychoanalyst’s relationship with it, and sets out to question it. Founded in January 1981, the École de la Cause freudienne was the last institutional initiative of Jacques Lacan, who was its first president. As a counter-experiment, it took over from the École freudienne de Paris, which he founded in 1964, before dissolving it in 1980. It is part of the movement to reconquer the Freudian field launched by Jacques Lacan on June 21, 1964. Since 1992, the ECF has seen the birth of the World Association of Psychoanalysis ( AMP), which now comprises seven schools. Since 2006, it has had the status of a publicly recognized psychoanalytic association.



