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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.
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Its statutes
[2]
are modelled on
Jacques Lacan
's "Founding Act"
[3]
and adopt the principles outlined in his "
Proposition
" on the Pass.
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Components
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The World Association of Psychoanalysis groups together the Ecole de la Cause freudienne (France); the Escuela de la Orientacion Lacaniana (Argentina); the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanalisis del Campo Freudiano (Spain); the Scuola lacaniana di psicoanalisi (Italy); the European Federation of the Schools of the WAP; the Escola Brasileira de Psicanalise (Brazil); the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (Latin America); and the New Lacanian School.
Lacanian
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With over 2,000 members worldwide, the WAP stands as the largest institutional structure dedicated to the training of psychoanalysts in the Lacanian orientation.
Presidents
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International congresses
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In 1994 and 1996, the members of the WAP met in "assemblies". Since 1998, the international meetings have taken the form of congresses.
Number
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Year
|
City
|
President
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Theme
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1
|
1998
|
Barcelona
|
Jacques-Alain Miller
|
|
2
|
2000
|
Buenos Aires
|
Jacques-Alain Miller
|
|
3
|
2002
|
Brussels
|
Jacques-Alain Miller
|
"Training-Effects in Psychoanalysis: their Site, Causes, and Paradoxes"
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4
|
2004
|
Comandatuba
|
Graciela Brodsky
|
"The Lacanian Practice of Psychoanalysis: without Standards but not without Principles"
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5
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2006
|
Rome
|
Graciela Brodsky
|
"The Name-of-the-Father; Going without it, Making Use of it"
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6
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2008
|
Buenos Aires
|
Eric Laurent
|
"The Objects
a
in the Psychoanalytic Experience"
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7
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2010
|
Paris
|
Eric Laurent
|
"Semblants and Sinthome"
|
8
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2012
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Buenos Aires
|
Leonardo Gorostiza
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"The Symbolic Order in the Twenty-First Century: What are the Consequences for the Direction of the Treatment?"
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9
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2014
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Paris
|
Leonardo Gorostiza
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"A Real for the Twenty-First Century"
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Preparatory texts for the congresses are published in
Scilicet
.
References
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- ^
Price, A. "Editorial" to
Hurly-Burly
, Issue 6, September 2011, p. 10.
- ^
"Statutes of the WAP", published on the
website of the London Society
- ^
Lacan, J., "The Founding Act" in
Television/A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment
, pp. 97-106.
- ^
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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