Lacan Circle Cartels Information

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

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Current Lacan Circle Cartels

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, Germany	Rattenschwänze
Member Jas Matisse	member@caribicresidency.com Berlin, Germany	Fascia (interstitium) – a newfound organ and body-wide communication system of unconscious processes
Member Benno Schurig	contact@bearinmindbooking.com Berlin, Germany	Formations of the Unconscious
Member Dani Waltenberger	daniloniwalton@gmail.com Berlin, Germany	Formations of the Unconscious

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

Plus-one Tim Themi	tim.themi@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne, Australia	Perversion, Eroticism, and Be-ing
Member Judith Beyer	beyer.judith@gmail.com Konstanz, Germany	Politics as père-version
Member Glenn Rutter	contact@lacancircle.com.au Melbourne, Australia	Perversion and Paraphilias
Member Ross Spencer	rossspencer695@gmail.com Adelaide, Australia	Parliamentary Perversion
Member Fida Elian	fida.elian@gmail.com East Jerusalem, Palestine	Perversion in the Colonial/Capitalist Discourse

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

Dreams

Plus-one Jonathan Redmond	drjdredmond@gmail.com Perth, Australia	Dreams
Member Pritam Banerjee	banerjeepritam21@gmail.com	Dreams
Member Bodhiswata Biswas	bodhiswatabiswas@gmail.com	Dreams
Member Soham Chatterjee	soham.chatt.8@gmail.com	Dreams
Member Somashree Choudhury	choudhurysomashree@gmail.com	Dreams

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 6 and 13 November 2021. Thirteen cartelisands made presentations. Contact us here for the recordings of one or both days.

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