In Support of Philosophy 1973–1976 287
In France there is not an analytic institution cut into four slices
that it would suffi ce to adjoin in order to complete a whole and
to recompose the harmonious unity of a community. If it were
a cake, it would not be a quatre-quarts [four fourths, i.e. pound
cake].
Each group [.. .] allegedly forms the only authentic analytic
institution, the only one legitimately wielding the Freudian
heritage, the only one that develops this heritage authenti-
cally in its practice, its didactics, its modes of formation and of
reproduction. [.. .]
Consequence: to go do a tranche (which is not at all of the
whole [qui n’est pas du tout]) in another group (which is not of
the whole [qui n’est pas du tout]) is to tranche -fer onto the non-
analyst, who then can counter-tranche-fer onto the analyst.^58