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1979 was the year Jacques-Alain Miller launched his slogan “all Lacanians”. In this article the author makes the hypothesis that the dissolution of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris and the death of Lacan served to intensify the question: “what is it to be Lacanian?” –even if the attempts at answering were not immediately considered as such. Whilst simultaneously referring to the various developments this issue gave rise to –notably in linking it to the question of “what it is to be Cartesian”– the author hypothesises that beyond the theoretical dimension of Lacanian legacy, it is the dismantling of this “Lacanian fabrication” that today leads Essaim to the question “who is afraid to call himself Lacanian?”.Yet rather than focusing only on the negative dimension of the dismantling of this “Lacanian fabrication”, the author on the contrary here suggests looking at something other than a return to the status quo ante 1964 and the possibility of finding a point of impossibility likely to orientate analysts today. Effectively it is often forgotten that from the 1980s all analysts coming from post-dissolution psychoanalytic associations are “not without Lacan”, whatever their doctrinal approach and their institutional framework.