is good and if inaccurate (as Leclaire interrupts to say) he is compelling.  Gross but funny thumbnail caricatures of the members of the investigating committee are memorable.  Now the heat is on: Leclaire and Miller try to interrupt Safouan’s monologue, but he isn’t having any of it and, seconded by someone in the audience (Dolto) he finishes and is applauded.  As the evening wears on, the debate is heated – with Leclaire (as at the Mathèmes) producing and taking most of the heat.  He is feisty and never wordy – he is analytically silent, choosing where to intervene and never at length.  What fascinates me is the Melman/Leclaire duel.  They clearly hate each other’s guts.  Melman, on taking up some of the historical material, comes down very hard on those students and analysands of Lacan (the best and the brightest – Laplanche, Pontalis, Granof [sic]) who turned against Lacan, tried to “muzzle” him (have him “bayonné” [gagged] by IPA interposé [intervention]) because they resented him.  Caustically he remarks that they betrayed Lacan because they felt they couldn’t speak in their own name, do their own thing, while under Lacan.  And now we can see the brilliant, original things they had to say.  Much later in the debate Leclaire – who is I think on the defensive – comes back to this saying “sterility is not limited to those who are outside the EFP.”