ABSTRACT
Six years after “On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis”, Lacan (1964a) taught his eleventh seminar, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, which constituted a second stage in his teaching (Miller, 2003a). The step towards it was accompanied by an institutional change: Lacan was, in his words, “excommunicated” (1964a; 1969) from the French Psychoanalytic Society, on the grounds of his controversial teaching and what was being considered as an unorthodox practice of psychoanalysis (Nobus, 1999; Roudinesco, 1997). He thus left Saint Anne’s for the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, a Parisian grande école.
