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Born with the century , Jacques Lacan never found it necessary to resist being showered with honors; few came his way. It is remarkable that in a country which displays such respect for age and for success he should always have been a controversial figure. Ignored by the academy, disregarded by the media, Lacan occupied a modest teaching position at the École pratique des hautes études; to the International Psychoanalytic Association he remained anathema. On the other hand, by an interesting contrast, he was far from being an outcast. After having provided the occasion for two major schisms in the French psychoanalytic community (, ), he founded his own institution, the École freudienne (1964) which still pros-pers.1 His teaching, conducted in a weekly seminar over a long period of time, enjoyed for nearly thirty years an unprecedented attendance, which grew after the appearance, in 1966,