Although the eminent French analyst, Jacques Lacan, has proclaimed himself the leader of a return to Freud, his insistence on maintaining a radical definition of the unconscious, his exclusive emphasis on a structural approach to a study of the subject, and his theoretical elaborations based on recent developments in linguistics, philosophy, and anthropology have created a storm at the center of classical psychoanalysis. Lacan's method of interpreting Freud, his views on the scientific status of psychoanalysis and on the relationship of language and truth are demonstrated in his 1953 lecture, "The Neurotic's Individual Myth."