Introduction to the translation of Où il y a symptôme et sinthome by Jean Allouch

This paper was presented at the conference A Tribute to the Work of Cormac Gallagher in Dublin from November 30 to December 1, 2018. Peter Gunn brought the paper back from the conference with a suggestion to translate it into English and to invite a discussion of the paper in the work of the Freudian School of Melbourne. We then contacted Jean Allouch, who generously gave permission to translate the paper. It appears here both in the original French version and in the English translation. Sadly, Jean Allouch passed away in September 2023, and the appearance here of this paper both in French and in English is also a way for the School to pay homage to him, by continuing to produce a work from each of our transferences to his writings.