The Ich-Psychologies, which was promoted to the forefront of analytic theory, constitutes the jam, constitutes the dam, and constitutes the inertia, which prevents the re-start of any analytic efficacy. Jacques Lacan’s writings must be understood, in a manner similar to political writings, as localised interventions. Lacan’s new account of the desire of the analyst introduced a certain indiscernibility or vacillation at the heart of the analytic procedure, bringing closer together at the institutional level the two instances which are in “absolute difference” within the clinical scene. E. Porge tracks the astonishing juxtapositions, throughout Lacan’s teaching, of mentions to the interrupted seminar of 1962, the “excommunication” from the ipa and the concept of the Names-of-the-Father. The concern with the different battles fought by Lacan—battles sometimes waged against Lacan's own positions—must be supplemented by a refined attention to an important shift which took place around 1963 in his relation with the French psychoanalytic situation.