psychanalytique de langue française, also known as the "Quatrième groupe". 'The issue of the pass continues to devastate the Lacanian community to this very day [2005]—more than two decades after Lacan dissolved his school'. The pass was essentially a procedure whereby ananalysand could give an account of his or her inward transformation before three "passeurs", who would then validate the transformation from analysand to analyst. Lacan was deeply committed to the "proposition that the analyst historizes only from himself: a patent fact. even if he is confirmed in doing so by a hierarchy". That was the basis for his moral authority with respect to the IPA; but 'the form of charismatic authority which, in his personal and institutional presence, he so dramatically provoked' could scarcely be generalised to every member of the school without producing a Pirandello world of Right You Are! (if you think so). Seen from outside, 'Lacan's failed attempt to institutionalise awareness without institutionalising it, is fascinating', but fell down on the aporia that 'the passe which changed the analyst was a passage from one inner state to another, while the passe which recognised the new status was a formalised external procedure'. From the inside, 'animosity and resentment...[&] suspicion of institutional foul play' were the Lacanian legacy of the pass. Dogmatism and dissolution In the wake of the '68 split, 'an increasingly rigid Lacanian orthodoxy' came to dominate the EFP: as a disillusioned former member remarked, the custom of closing debates or silencing objections with a quotation from a Lacan who had become the object of a personality cult was scarcely conducive to open debate'. Perhaps as a result, in January 1980 Lacan announced the dissolution of the EFP. in order to forestall 'the degradation of his ideas under the weight of his own institution...a challenge to authority yet at the same time authoritarian....Lacan was trapped in the circles of this paradox'. He then founded another short-lived organisation, La cause freudienne; but 'more than twenty associations emerged from the 1980 dissolution of the Ecole freudienne de Paris'—testimony perhaps to the way 'the Lacanian movement was doomed to dissidence...the history of a perpetual acting-out, the momentary adventure, a kind of surrealist time'. However La Cause freudienne kept alive the Lacanian legacy with its Lettre Mensuelle (edited by Jacques-Alain Miller and Gérard Pommier): at its masthead, a quote from Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "Here comes Everybody...seeker of the nest of