Paris , 14 September 2001
Dear Colleagues,
My second letter has now been printed. Its title is * A letter
as clear as daylight commemorating the twenty years since Lacan's death*.
With the first letter I gave three claps. Now, the curtain rises.
M.Diatkine joins M.Denis ; they congratulate each other; the author tells the
facts, then he speaks about Lacan's assassination in 1963, and finally he addresses
the intellectual group of his generation, from Regis Debray to Jean-Claude Milner
and Philippe Sollers.
It is about the French *inteligentsia* giving a rightful place
to Lacan, and in Paris a party of Enlightenment is reborn.
I offer the French the example of the EOL and the IPA in Argentina, which have
demonstrated that there is no need to come together in the same organisation
to work jointly, being comrades and friends, to make psychoanalysis enter into
the XXI century.
None of these things would be possible without what we have done
together in the Freudian Field for twenty years.
This century which begins with the terrorist attack on New York
will be marked by the stamp of the threat.
The psychoanalysts, once they have decided to end the Claytons civil wars in
which they waste their time, then they will be able to take their own place
in the debates of the City.
Believe, dear colleagues, in all my consideration,
JAM
PS: The first letter had 16 pages, it cost 30 FF. The second
has 32 pages, it will be available in the bookstores at the cost of 50 FF. In
Paris, tomorrow afternoon, in the province, at some time next week.
Translated by Susana Tillet