World Association of Psychoanalysis

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World Association of Psychoanalysis
Formation1992
FounderJacques-Alain Miller
Type Nonprofit
Headquarters Paris
President
Christiane Alberti
AffiliationsLacanian
Website www.wapol.org/en/Template.asp

The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) is an organisation dedicated to promoting the development of psychoanalysis across the world. It follows the teaching of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and was launched at the initiative of his student and son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1992. It was then officially declared in Paris four days later. [1] Its statutes [2] are modelled on Lacan's "Founding Act" [3] and adopt the principles outlined in his "Proposition" on the Pass. [4]

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Structure

With 1,986 members worldwide, and more in affiliated groups, the WAP stands as the largest institutional structure dedicated to the training of psychoanalysts in the Lacanian orientation. It consists of seven fully-functioning Schools:

Four European schools which together form the EuroFédération de Psychanalyse:

Three American Schools which together form the Federación Americana de la Orientación Lacaniana:

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
11998 Barcelona Jacques-Alain Miller
22000 Buenos Aires Jacques-Alain Miller
32002 Brussels Jacques-Alain Miller"Training-Effects in Psychoanalysis: their Site, Causes, and Paradoxes"
42004 Comandatuba Graciela Brodsky"The Lacanian Practice of Psychoanalysis: without Standards but not without Principles"
52006 Rome Graciela Brodsky"The Name-of-the-Father; Going without it, Making Use of it"
62008Buenos Aires Éric Laurent "The Objects a in the Psychoanalytic Experience"
72010 Paris Éric 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"
102016 Rio de Janeiro Miquel Bassos"The Speaking Body: The Unconscious in the 21st Century"
112018BarcelonaMiquel Bassos"The Ordinary Psychoses and the Others, under Transference”
12/132022OnlineAngelina Harari"Woman Does Not Exist"
142024OnlineChristiane Alberti"Everyone is Mad"

Preparatory texts for the congresses are published in Scilicet .

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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.