Cartels
Cartels refer to a form of work among 3 to 5 people who desire to advance questions pertaining to psychoanalytic practice, theory, or critique. Cartels offer a working means of resisting group dynamics, such as identification with a leader, consensus/impasses, and aggressivity, through the function of the plus-one, which is fulfilled by an individual with a clinical trajectory who realizes the social link of the analytic discourse within the group. Ultimately, cartels represent the collective work of singularities, and are foundational to the project of the School. If you want more info on the current cartels, please click here.
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Encortel
With the Lacan Salon’s 2025 Laconference on Feminine Desire, quickly approaching; A close reading of Jacques Lacan’s infamous seminar 20, On Feminine sexuality, the limits of love and knowledge (1998/1972-73) seems pertinent. A half century later, much has changed… “Or has it?” In our time, the central question of Lacan’s Seminar XX, Encore, is often considered solved, or perhaps irrelevant; sexual difference does not exist. How could a theory of sexuation…
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Cartel: The Lacanian Baby
Argument The human subject is born prematurely, the so-called baby, and is incapable of sustaining life by itself, so an utter dependency is born between the baby and the Other of care. Lacanian psychoanalysis is one of the most sophisticated theories ever articulated about human subjectivity, as it provides a trajectory of psychic subject formation that includes the three registers of human experience and a temporality before one’s birth. We want…
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Cartel: Crossing Paths of Counselling and Lacan
Diverse questions are welcomed from counsellors who may want to incorporate Lacanian psychoanalytic ideas into their practice and or, Lacanians who might view “counselling” as a way to develop a practice as a Lacanian Psychoanalyst where other options for licencing are limited, etc… Please email aloisksieben@gmail.com if you are interested in joining or click here.
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Cartel: Covid-19
We are being traversed by a true event whose consequences are yet undetermined. This situation has moved us to articulate, from a psychoanalytic point of view, something of this historical event while the phenomenon continues unfolding. Members Alessandra Capperdoni Juan Luis de la Mora Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez Plus-One Francine Danniau If you want more information on the current cartels, please click here.
