Lacan Circle Clinical Study Days
Painful loves: transference, fantasy and object a in the analytic setting
With reference to the 2025 NLS congress theme “Painful Loves”.
With Jean-Luc Monnier (NLS-ECF-WAP)
22 October Perth
25-27 October Melbourne
Lacan Circle Clinical Seminar
Due to the sensitive nature of the material, attendance at the LCA clinical seminar is by invitation only and reserved for members of the LCA and people with a clinical interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
If you are interested in attending, please contact the seminar organizer Ellen Smith.
Friday November 15th
Lacan Circle Journal
PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 7
Psychoanalysis in the World
Russell Grigg
Frank Rollier
Peichi Su
Rik Loose
Mladen Dolar
Santanu Biswas
Sarah Rice
Lacan Circle Reading Group
Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI, Desire and Its Interpretation
Dreams, Fantasy, Desire, Transference and the Phallus – Weekly on Wednesdays
The recording of our most recent session is always available here
Convened by Eugénie Austin
Lacan Circle Cartels
A cartel is a small group of ‘cartelisands’ who elect to study and research together.
They choose a ‘plus-one’ to lead and animate the life of the cartel, facilitate a productive group dynamic, and maintain a distance between knowledge and truth
Read more about Lacan Circle Cartels here
Lacan Circle Seminar
Case Studies: An Introduction
In this seminar we are reading a range of case studies, drawing firstly on classic instances from Freud and Lacan. We also turn to considerations of two quite different moments of psychoanalytic transmission via the study of a case: these are testimonies of the pass; and the presentation of a case made by an analyst to their supervisor.
Presented by Alison Ravenscroft
LCA Low Cost Clinic
The Lacan Circle of Australia’s low cost clinic offers psychoanalytically informed treatment for people who would otherwise struggle to afford it.
The LCA low cost clinic is located in Melbourne. It works with adults 18 years and older and sessions are in person.
NLS Congress 2025
17 – 18 May in Paris
Painful Loves
“For one there is the circumscribed pain of the symptom, like the effect of a splinter in the flesh. For the other, the limitless pain of ravage and total devastation.”
Presentation of the theme by NLS President Patricia Bosquin-Caroz
The Lacanian Review
TLR 15, Winter 2024, CUT
Jacques-Alain Miller
Éric Laurent
Patricia Bosquin-Caroz
Daniel Roy
Jacques Lacan, and more
The full details are here
Guiding Principles
There is no standard treatment, no general procedure by which psychoanalytic treatment is governed … A psychoanalytic session is the place in which the most stable identifications by which a subject is attached can come undone … Psychoanalysis cannot decide what is aims are in terms of an adaptation of a subject’s singularity to any norms, rules, determinations, or standards of reality.
Éric Laurent, in full here
