Freud’s path to acceptance in France was even less straightforward than in England and America, and “Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse” (The Language of Psychoanalysis ), published in 1967, was meant to help remedy this. The fact that its authors, Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, were born in the period between the two World Wars was not without significance in terms of understanding the work at the time it was published.