World Association of Psychoanalysis

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The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) was launched at the initiative of Jacques-Alain Miller in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1992. It was declared in Paris, four days later, on 7 January.[1] Its statutes[2] are modelled on Jacques Lacan's "Founding Act"[3] and adopt the principles outlined in his "Proposition" on the Pass.[4]

Components

The World Association of Psychoanalysis groups together the École de la Cause freudienne (France); the Escuela de la Orientación Lacaniana (Argentina); the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis del Campo Freudiano (Spain); the Scuola lacaniana di psicoanalisi (Italy); the European Federation of the Schools of the WAP; the Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise (Brazil); the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (Latin America); and the New Lacanian School.

Lacanian

With over 1, 500 members worldwide, the WAP stands as the largest institutional structure dedicated to the training of psychoanalysts in the Lacanian orientation.

Presidents

International congresses

In 1994 and 1996, the members of the WAP met in "assemblies". Since 1998, the international meetings have taken the form of congresses.

NumberYearCityPresidentTheme
11998BarcelonaJacques-Alain Miller
22000Buenos AiresJacques-Alain Miller
32002BrusselsJacques-Alain Miller"Training-Effects in Psychoanalysis: their Site, Causes, and Paradoxes"
42004ComandatubaGraciela Brodsky"The Lacanian Practice of Psychoanalysis: without Standards but not without Principles"
52006RomeGraciela Brodsky"The Name-of-the-Father; Going without it, Making Use of it"
62008Buenos AiresÉric Laurent"The Objects a in the Psychoanalytic Experience"
72010ParisÉric Laurent"Semblants and Sinthome"
82012Buenos AiresLeonardo Gorostiza"The Symbolic Order in the Twenty-First Century: What are the Consequences for the Direction of the Treatment?"
92014ParisLeonardo Gorostiza"A Real for the Twenty-First Century"

Preparatory texts for the congresses are published in Scilicet.

References

  1. Price, A. "Editorial" to Hurly-Burly, Issue 6, September 2011, p. 10.
  2. "Statutes of the WAP", published on the website of the London Society
  3. Lacan, J., "The Founding Act" in Television/A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, pp. 97-106.
  4. Lacan, J., "Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the Psychoanalyst of the School" in Analysis, Issue 6, 1995, pp. 1-13.
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