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In 2007, the Association psychanalytique de France (APF) began the yearly publication of L'Annuel, a retrospective volume collecting papers revolving around a theme, some of which have been presented during that year's scientific meetings. The theme of the eighth issue—edited by Laurence Kahn, published in 2014 and entitled Le langage, malgré tout (“Language in Spite of Everything”)—is language, or, more specifically, the signifier. This theme evokes the history of the APF and especially the role of Lacan in the association's early days.
After World War II, the Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP), which had been founded in 19261 and was part of the International Psychoanalytical Association, was reestablished. In 1953, upon the creation of a psychoanalytic institute under the leadership of Sacha Nacht, various differences of opinion, whose manifest content concerned the role of the university in training, led to the creation of the Société française de