School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

The Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis ( French École Lacanienne de Psychanalyse ) is one of the three largest psychoanalytic schools that conducts the most advanced research in the field of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It was founded on November 17, 1985 by students and followers of Jacques Lacan , Guy Le Guofay , Jean Alluche and Roland Lethe.

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Since the theory of psychoanalysis arises from the clinic, the School attaches greater importance to practical work than to the dissemination of objective knowledge. The school considers the development of psychoanalytic discourse a priority over the popularization of Lacan's ideas, therefore, unlike other schools, it does not support extensive educational and enlightenment programs. Contrasting the analytical experience with scientific knowledge, the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis considers the clinical space more suitable for gaining its own understanding of psychoanalysis than a lecture audience. Psychoanalysis is a specific form of knowledge, which involves the involvement of the subject himself, so it can hardly be studied at the university as a humanitarian or medical discipline.

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At the base of the school, as its president Guy Le Guofe says, there were two acts: (1) negative, associated with the rejection of the idea of passing in didactic analysis and (2) critical, related to the need to rethink Lacan’s theory and clinic, and to read his Seminars historically. Like the founding father of psychoanalysis, Lacan did not leave us a complete clinical technique or theory of "lacanism." Over the course of 30 years (from the first seminar in 1952 to the last in 1980), his teaching was dynamically changed, leaving us three topics in the legacy, therefore, when studying Lacan, you always need to keep in mind the historical perspective and incompleteness of his theory.

Speaking with criticism of “Freudian-Lacanism,” the School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis considers it more productive not to look for similarities, but to emphasize the differences and independence of the Freud and Lacan theory, studying each of them in its own identity. Therefore, within the School there are groups for the study and translation of Freud and other classics, which distinguishes the School from many other Lacanian organizations. No less attention is paid to the study of the relationship of Lacanian psychoanalysis with the theories of Klein , Winnicott , Bion and the British tradition, while “Lacanism” is not considered a privileged discourse or the last word in psychoanalysis.

Considering each clinical case to be unique, the School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis seeks to avoid both psychiatric diagnosis and simple structural differentiation into neurosis , psychosis and perversion . Although Freud distinguished these three structures, the description of his own cases tells us that he himself did not always adhere to this differentiation. Returning to Freud's experience, Schools proceeds from the singularity of each case, and does not consider it possible to reduce it to structures or diagnoses or precedents already described.

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The school of Lacanian psychoanalysis also publishes its own version of Lacan's Seminars , starting this publication with the latest topics (seminars 1977-1981).

School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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