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There is a colloquial expression in French that one can sometimes hear in the company of psychoanalysts, but with increasing frequency also amongst the so-called “educated lay-people,” and which serves to emphasize the excruciatingly awkward formulation of a spoken sentence or written statement. Faced with his complete failure to fathom the significance of a text, confronted with her radical inability even to begin to understand the meaning of a phrase, a person may be heard to say: “Eh bien, c’est vraiment du Lacan, ça!” Perhaps the éminences grises of the Académie française will one day discuss whether officially to admit a new word into their language and thus into the pages of the great French dictionaries: “lacan [lakã] m. 0.1 mot/passage difficile, impossible à comprendre; 0.2 personne qui parle ou écrit de façon difficile.” Perhaps they will one day even debate whether to give their blessing to the language system that gives birth to these difficult words and passages: “lacanien [lakanj ] m. 0.1 adhérent/praticien de la psychanalyse lacanienne, tradition développée par le psychiatre français Jacques Lacan (1901–1981); 0.2. langage parlé par les lacaniens; 0.3 langage difficile/incompréhensible; 3.2 parler lacanien fig. parler de façon difficile/incompréhensible; cf. parler chinois.” Now that “Lacan” is no longer simply recognized as a proper name, but has acquired the status of an appellative in popular parlance, perhaps we will one day indeed be entitled to use it as a synonym for “unfathomable, convoluted, twisted, inaccessible, gobbledygook.” Students whose written work falls far below common academic standards of readability might then be told that their essays are too “lacanian,” contain too many “lacanisms,” and consequently be asked to put them into “proper” language. One category of students, however, would never run the risk of their papers being criticized for “intermittent lacanianisms,” “lacanian turns of phrase,” “high Lacan-quality,” etc. In this bracket we find, of course, the boys and girls who aspire to become “adherents/practitioners of Lacanian psychoanalysis, tradition developed by the French psychiatrist Jacques Lacan (1901–1981).” Since the process of initiation and ordination into this tradition involves acquiring its language, a totally unique idiom with a specific grammar and vocabulary, the aforementioned criticisms would no doubt become coveted accolades and well-received tokens of intellectual achievement. Lacanian (or Lacanese, as it is sometimes called) is, after all, the language of professional exchange within the