Jacques LACAN (1901–1981). P.A.S. (signed at the top, draft - Lot 193

Jacques LACAN (1901–1981). P.A.S. (signed at the top, draft with cross-outs and corrections), [1967]; 2 pages in-4, the first bearing his letterhead: “Dr. Jacques Lacan, Former Clinical Director at the Faculty” (typed copy attached). Certificate for psychoanalyst Fanny Colonomos-Bocquet (1932–2008). “I, the undersigned, Dr. Jacques Lacan, former clinical director of mental and neurological disorders, lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and director of the École freudienne de Paris, hereby certify that Ms. Colonomos, née Fanny Bocquet, Doctor of Medicine from the University of Genoa, has pursued her training as a psychoanalyst in Paris since November 1960, thereby earning the most honorable qualifications. […] In her so-called didactic analysis, she has demonstrated the most valuable qualities one might expect from someone who will in turn take on the practice—the first being scientific rigor, the second that kind of humility which is the essence of the unconscious”…