This is the intervention delivered by the President of the École de la Cause Freudienne (ECF), Laura Sokolowsky, at the French Senate during the symposium on the defence of the psychoanalytic relation in the psy services, held on 6 June 2026.
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From: “Secrétaire AMP – Uqbar Wapol” (Association mondiale de la psychanalyse-Worls Association of Psychoanalysis)
Subject: Intervention de la présidente de l’ECF au Sénat français / Intervención de la presidente de la ECF en el Senado de Francia
Date: 12 June 2026 at 13:32:40 BST
Reference
Sokolov, As Lacan wrote in “English Psychiatry and the War,” published in 1947, it is a struggle against the dark forces of the superego that demand submission and silence. This struggle is ours today.
Notes & references at British Psychiatry and the War : 1947 : Jacques Lacan, www.LacanianWorks.org /4 Jacques Lacan (19470101 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
Available www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan (265 AUTRES ÉCRITS – La psychiatrie anglaise et la guerre)
P26 of Philip Dravers & Véronique Voruz’s translation, It must be said that the risks implied by such a respect for collective interests [119] have appeared in experience to amount to infinitesimal proportions, for this war has I think sufficiently demonstrated that it is not from too great an indocility of individuals that the dangers for the future of humanity will come. It is now clear that the dark powers of the superego make alliances with the most cowardly abandonments of conscience, to lead men to a death accepted for the least human causes, and that all that appears as sacrifice is not, for all, that heroic.