In 1964 Jacques Lacan invented a particular form of working group
He named it a cartel
A cartel is a small group of three to five members, ‘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.
Each cartelisand chooses a question or a theme of work: the reading of a seminar, the investigation of a concept, the elaboration of a case, the connection between psychoanalysis and another field, etcetera. To each person’s own investigation a common theme is added that becomes the title of the cartel.
Cartel meetings are arranged in a rhythm and format that is decided between the cartel members.
“The success of the School will be measured by the production of work that is acceptable in its proper setting.”
Jacques Lacan The Founding Act 1964
The work carried out does not lead to a collective product or to a knowledge taken from the group. It is rather a matter for each one, according to the moment of his relation to psychoanalysis, to submit what could be noted of what was being able to be modified in his relation to analytic knowledge.
Lacan Circle encourage high quality cartel output:
Through participation in our May and November ‘Cartel Presentation Days’ and other events
Through publication in the Lacan Circle journal PsychoanalysisLacan
Through publication in the NLS Online journal Lacanian Review Online
Through publication in the NLS cartel Newsletter 4 + one quartreplusone
A cartel may not last longer than one or two years; each one must conclude so that new knowledge can appear.
Anyone with an interest in Lacanian Psychoanalysis may participate in cartel work. There are no fees, and no prerequisites other than desire. You may invite colleagues to form a new cartel, or you may register your interest here, and we can help you find others to work with.
Lacan Circle Cartels - Registration of Interest
Current Lacan Circle Cartels
We’re all mad here
| Plus-one Jonathan Redmond |
drjdredmod@gmail.com Fremantle, Australia |
All mad … how mad? |
| Member Penelope Allsobrook |
pallsobrook@gmail.com Cologne and London |
Fire and Ashes |
| Member Aaron Fitchew |
aaronfitchew@gmail.com London, UK |
We’re all mad here |
| Member Yi Hung |
contact.che.y.h@gmail.com Singapore |
We’re all mad here
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| Member Jas Matisse |
member@caribicresidency.com Berlin, Germany |
Believing “nothing”
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Perversion
| Plus-one Tim Themi |
tim.themi@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne, Australia |
Perversion and non-knowledge |
| Member Ross Spencer |
rossspencer695@gmail.com Adelaide, Australia |
Perversion, conversion, trans–ideology, and radical feminism |
| Member Meera Lee |
jayapich@gmail.com New York City, USA |
Perversion and the dialectic of the symbolic phallus |
| Member Nicolas Tajan |
n.tajan2@gmail.com Kyoto, Japan |
Perversion féminine
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| Member David Sigler |
dsigler@ucalgary.ca Calgary, Canada |
Perversion and Seminar IV
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| Member Kooper Wilson |
koopercwilson@gmail.com Portland, USA |
Perversion and phylogenesis
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Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
| Plus-one David Ferraro |
david_ferraro@hotmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
The drive, sublimation, and the political economy of jouissance |
| Member Cara Brough |
carabrough@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
Acting in conformity with one’s desire |
| Member Ellen Smith |
ellenmargaretsmith@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
Sublimation and the thing |
| Member Eva Birch |
evabirch@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
Hysteria, obsessional neurosis, and art
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Sexuation
| Plus-one Rodrigo Gonsalves |
rodrigo.gonsalves@egs.edu Sao Paulo, Brazil |
What in Lacan’s formalisation that ‘there is no sexual relation’ could examine the impasses of an international cartel-form? |
| Member Eugénie Austin |
eugenie@eugenie.com.au Melbourne, Australia |
Sexuation – Terminable or Interminable? |
| Member Alicia Barrena |
cabarrena24@gmail.com Mexico City, Mexico |
What is man to woman? |
| Member S Brahnam |
sbrahnam@missouristate.edu Missouri, USA |
What is the relation between Lacan’s declaration ‘There is no sexual relation’ and the four discourses? |
| Member Sadegh Omidghaemi |
s.omidghaemi95@gmail.com Esfahan, Iran |
When all is said and done, what should we make (of) love? |
| Member Christopher Wolter |
christopher.wolter@egs.edu New York, USA |
What is the relation between castration and the formulas of sexuation; how does this play out clinically in analysis? |
Lacan’s Four Discourses
| Plus-one Angus Craig |
angus.craig@middlemore.co.nz | The Four Discourses in the Function of Psychoanalytic Institutions: Is there a Borromean solution? |
| Member Abdul Salam |
salampsycho@gmail.com | Lacan’s Four Discourses |
| Member Stu Hatton |
stu.j.hatton@gmail.com | The Four Discourses and Developmental Diagnoses (PDA) |
| Member Thomas Capogreco |
thomas.capogreco@gmail.com | The Potential for the Discursive Role of Musical Rituals in Educational Settings |
| Member Jake Muir |
jakecmuir@gmail.com | The Four Discourses and the Ethics of Education: Student Agency, Institutional Power, and the University Discourse |
The Question of Formation of the Subject
| Plus-one Dibyokamal Mitra |
dminormitra@gmail.com Kolkata, India |
The imaginary and the subject |
| Member Ala Akbarian |
ala.akbarian@gmail.com Tehran, Iran |
Transference and Dynamicity of Therapeutic Relationship |
| Member Michael KC Thanga |
n.kcthang@gmail.com Shillong, Meghalaya |
Identification and the Subject |
| Member Zameer Nawaz |
zameernawaz@gmail.com Mianwali, Pakistan |
Lack and Desire |
| Member Kajal Jha |
kajalkajalkajal32@gmail.com Delhi, India |
Language of Dreams |
The Body and Its Discontents
| Plus-one Astrid Lac |
alac@yonsei.ac.kr Seoul, South Korea |
Sex, Sexuation and Sinthome |
| Member Robyn Adler |
robyncadler@gmail.com Tasmania, Australia |
The Function of the Written |
| Member Jason Childs |
jasonofchilds@gmail.com Berlin, Germany |
Assaying Analysis: Genre and Jouissance |
| Member Henry Gardner |
henrygardner@me.com Melbourne, Australia |
Another Round? The (W)hole and the One |
| Member Mandy Marano |
almarano67@gmail.com Perth, Australia |
The Developing Child / The Sexuated Subject and the Body of the Other |
Formations of the Unconscious
| Plus-one Eugénie Austin |
eugenie@eugenie.com.au Melbourne, Australia |
The Leaking Unconscious |
| Member Penelope Allsobrook |
pallsobrook@gmail.com Cologne and London |
Desire’s relationship to signifiers in: The Ratcatcher’s Way to Language and Finding the Children |
| Member Claire Baxter |
clairejbaxter@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
The Achilles heel in the mirror stage |
| Member Christian Gelder |
christian.rother.gelder@gmail.com Sydney, Australia |
How are symptoms formed? |
| Member Dani Waltenberger |
daniloniwalton@gmail.com Berlin, Germany |
Bumping into Lacan |
| Member Jas Matisse |
member@caribicresidency.com Berlin, Germany |
Beyond desire – what is beyond desire? And who is there? |
Autism
| Plus-one Leon Brenner |
leon.s.brenner@gmail.com Berlin, Germany |
The development of the differential clinic of the rim in autism |
| Member David Ferraro |
david.ferraro@thepsychologyclinic.com.au Melbourne, Australia |
The status of the Other in autism |
| Member Jonathan Redmond |
drjdredmond@gmail.com Perth, Australia |
The direction of the treatment |
| Member Noriaki Sato |
noriaki.sato@monash.edu Melbourne, Australia |
Topological significance of the rim and the ontology of a void |
| Member Serena Smith |
serenasm@internode.on.net Melbourne, Australia |
The topology of the body and the function of the object in autism |
Perversion and the State
| Plus-one Glenn Rutter |
contact@lacancircle.com.au Melbourne, Australia |
Perversion and paraphilias |
| Member Judith Beyer |
beyer.judith@gmail.com Konstanz, Germany |
Politics as père-version |
| Member Fida Elian |
fida.elian@gmail.com East Jerusalem, Palestine |
Perversion in the colonial/capitalist discourse |
| Member Joan Guenther |
joanguen@sympatico.ca Toronto, Canada |
What the pervert knows – a case study: the truckers’ convoy |
| Member William MacNeil |
w.macneil@uq.edu.au Byron Bay, Australia |
Perverting the course of justice |
Seminar III
| Plus-one David Ferraro |
david.ferraro@thepsychologyclinic.com.au Melbourne, Australia |
Psychosis and the position of the analyst |
| Member Leo Baldwin-Ramult |
lbal452@aucklanduni.ac.nz Auckland, New Zealand |
Psychotic structure and the triggering of psychosis |
| Member Dimitri Farmakis |
dmtrfarmakis@gmail.com Sydney, Australia |
Virtuality and the maternal phallus |
| Member Andrea Leon Lear |
andrealeonlear@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
The workings of the real and the speaking body |
| Member Sijun Shen |
sijun.shen@monash.edu Melbourne, Australia |
Psychosis and melancholy |
Interpretation
| Plus-one Russell Grigg |
ragrigg@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
Interpretation as a performative |
| Member Mia Lalanne |
mialalanne@bigpond.com Perth, Australia |
The signifier: translation and interpretation |
| Member Barbara Milech |
b.milech@curtin.edu.au | Interpretation as an act of love |
| Member Suzanne Smith |
sicadee@gmail.com | Interpretation and the imaginary |
| Member Jonathan Redmond |
drjdredmond@gmail.com Perth, Australia |
Interpretation and the object a |
Jacques Lacan’s Seminar XXIV
| Plus-one Natalie Wulfing |
natalieweulfing@gmail.com Berlin, Germany |
What is a new signifier? |
| Member David Ferraro |
david.ferraro@thepsychologyclinic.com.au Melbourne, Australia |
Is psychoanalysis what one would call an autism à deux? |
| Member Joanna Shemansky |
joanna.shemansky@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
The concept of narcissism in seminar XXIV |
| Member Grace Tarpey |
drgracetarpey@gmail.com Perth, Australia |
Knowledge and the symptom |
| Member David Westcombe |
westcombe@mac.com Canberra, Australia |
Lacan’s use of topology in Seminar XXIV |
Transference
| Plus-one Russell Grigg |
ragrigg@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
Transference and the real unconscious |
| Member Hanieh Moradi |
moradi.hanieh@yahoo.com Melbourne, Australia |
Transference and the analyst’s desire |
| Member Joanne Manning |
joanne7155@icloud.com | Desire and the discourse of the analyst |
| Member Nalinda Amarasiri Gunwardana |
agnalinda@yahoo.com Bendigo, Australia |
Transference and love |
| Member Eva Birch |
evabirch@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia |
Transference and jouissance |
Write to the Lacan Circle Cartel Organiser, Ellen Smith, here
Lacan Circle of Australia Cartel Presentation Days were held on 28 May and 4 June 2022.
Lacan Circle Cartels are intended to facilitate research and study in the Freudian Field, and are registered with the NLS. To enquire about NLS cartel activity please contact the NLS cartel delegate Joanne Conway.
4 + one quartreplusone is the journal of NLS cartels. It is published regularly and the latest edition is here
The Lacanian Review and TLR Online are published by the New Lacanian School (NLS). Both welcome submissions from NLS affiliated cartelisands
The Lacan Circle of Australia is an affiliate of the New Lacanian School (NLS), one of seven schools of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP)
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