The Lacan Circle of Australia is an organisation dedicated to training, education and research in the Lacanian orientation. We offer an array of activities for trainees, students, scholars and practitioners ranging from foundational to explorations at the forefront of current developments in the field. Visit our calendar of upcoming events here.
Seminars
Lacan Circle Seminars provide a foundation to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Participants explore the fundamentals of Freudian psychoanalysis, the teaching of Lacan, and contemporary developments in the Lacanian orientation. Lacan Circle Seminars are open to all.
Our 2024 seminar in progress is here: Case Studies: An Introduction
Semester 1, 2024
- Psychosis and Lacan’s Seminar III, Part II The details are here
- Clinical Seminar The details are here
Semester 2, 2023
- Psychosis and Lacan’s Seminar III, Part I The details are here
- Clinical Seminar The details are here
Semester 1, 2023
- Introduction to Jacques-Alain Miller and the Later Lacan The details are here
- The Lacanian Orientation of Jacques-Alain Miller (II): How Analyses End The details are here
- Clinical Seminar The details are here
Semester 2, 2022
- Lacan Goes to the Theatre The details are here
- Clinical Seminar The details are here
Semester 1, 2022
- The Real Lacan The details are here
- Introduction to Lacan: Return to Freud The details are here
- Clinical Seminar The details are here
Semester 2, 2021
- Lacan Circle Seminar on Perversion The details are here
- Seminar XIX … or Worse The details are here
- Discontinuity and the Drive The details are here
Semester 1, 2021
- Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
- Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Freud
Semester 2, 2020
- The Lacanian Orientation of Jacques-Alain Miller
- The Analytic Act in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Semester 1, 2020
- Names of The Father
- Clinical Issues in Psychoanalysis
Semester 2, 2019
- The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
- Anxiety
Semester 1, 2019
- The Direction of the Treatment
- Freud and the Papers on Technique
Semester 2, 2018
- Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis
- Sexuation
Semester 1, 2018
- The Psychoses: Reading Lacan’s Seminar III
- The Unconscious from Freud to Lacan
Clinical Seminars
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. The details are here
Reading Groups
Lacan Circle reading groups are free, entirely online, and open to all
Jacques Lacan, Seminar VI, Desire and Its Interpretation
This group is underway and ongoing. The details are here
Jacques Lacan, Seminar V, Formations of the Unconscious
This group met weekly during 2022 and 2023, and concluded in February 2024. The details are here
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
This group met weekly during 2022 The details are here
Jacques Lacan, Seminar IV, The Object Relation
This group met weekly during 2021 and 2022 The details are here
Jacques Lacan, Seminar III, The Psychoses
This group met weekly during 2020 and 2021 The details are here
In Conversation Events
2023
Frank Rollier, The Crisis of Authority and the Contemporary Discontent of Civilisation The recording is available here
Natalie Wülfing, The World, The Waste The recording is available here
Rik Loose, The Fall of the Object to Earth: Object a at the Zenith, Immonde (waste) and Discontent The recording is available here
2022
Maro Bellou, From Kierkegaard to Lacan: Repetition? The recording is available here
Anne Lysy, Jouissance at the end of an analysis The recording is available here
Véronique Voruz, Bodies Captured by Discourse The recording is available here
Thomas Svolos, The Aims of Analysis in the Late Lacan The recording is available here
Tim Themi, Bataille with Lacan: Eroticizing the Aesthetic The recording is available here
Leon Brenner, The Autistic Subject The recording is available here
Workshops
Four-week short courses
Workshop on Negativity, May 2023, presented by David Ferraro The details are here
Winter Webinars
Short seminars held during the Australian winter.
2023: The Body as Rim-Bot, presented by Serena Smith The details are here
2022: Lacan in the USA, presented by Russell Grigg The details are here
2021: Bodily Cuts Rims and Scraps: Lacan’s Topology, presented by Serena Smith The details are here
2020: Moses and Monotheism, presented by Russell Grigg
Cartels
The Lacan Circle has various cartels at work and in formation. LCA cartels are registered with the NLS. Visit our cartel information page here
We host Cartel Presentation Days each year. Our 2023 end-of-year event was held on 4 November and you may request the recording here
Journal Launch
PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 6: We’re all Mad Here was launched in Melbourne and online in February 2023, and is available here
PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 5: Lockdown! was launched in Melbourne and online in February 2022, and is available here
Visit PsychoanalysisLacan previous volumes here, and we will soon launch PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 7.
Study Days
2024
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Clinical Study Days with visiting guest Frank Rollier, NLS, ECF, WAP. Clinic of the Gaze; Diagnosis in the Clinic; Case Presentations; Origins and destinies of fantasies in adolescence, passages to the act (passages à l’acte). The details are here
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Painful Loves with keynote Russell Grigg, along with Jonathan Redmond, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Laurent Shervington and Nick Buckley. The details are here
2019
- Narcissism in our Time
- The Direction of the Treatment – Students of Lacan respond to themes recently studied
- Unlimited Enjoyments and The Real Unconscious
- Politics and Psychoanalysis
- Mothers
- There Is No Sexual Relation – Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love, Sex and Gender
- Lacan’s Seminars Applied – Students of the Lacan Circle respond to recent themes
2018
- Welcome to the Lacan Circle and the 2018 Program
- Divine Erotics: Psychoanalysis and Religion
- The Children of Psychoanalysis: From Little Hans to Lacan’s ‘Note on the Child’
- Love and the Sexual Non-relation
- Families, Couples and Children in a Hypermodern World
- Segregation and Identity
- The Postmodern Family
- Jacques Alain Miller and The Very Final Lacan
- Applied Psychoanalysis – From Le Courtil to the CPCT
Lacan Circle International Conferences
2022: We’re all Mad Here
Keynote: Jorge Assef, EOL, WAP, Argentina, and presentations by Lacan Circle analysts and associates over three days in November, 2022. The details are here Our associated publication, PsychoanalysisLacan Volume 6: We’re all Mad Here is available here
2020: Sexuation, Between Desire and Jouissance
Keynotes: Sophie Marret and Jean-Claude Maleval, France, and with presentations by international Lacanian analysts and associates. Cancelled due to coronavirus.
2019: The Real Unconscious
Keynote: Alexandre Stevens, vice-president of the New Lacanian School, Analyst Member of the New Lacanian School and of the Ecole de la Cause freudienne (ECF). He is the founder and therapeutic director of Le Courtil, an institution for the psychoanalytic treatment of children located in Belgium; and former president of the NLS and the ECF. With presentations by Lacan Circle analysts and associates.
2018: The Late Lacan
Keynote: Stijn Vanheule, Professor of Psychoanalysis, University of Ghent, member of the New Lacanian School, author of The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective, Diagnosis and the DSM and Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited. With presentations by members of the Lacan Circle of Australia.
2013: Or Worse, Psychoanalysis in a Post-Oedipal Era
Keynote: Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, Paris, member of the NLS and AMP
Colloquium 2019
Urgent Questions! Urgent Cases!
Keynote: Bernard Seynhaeve, President of the New Lacanian School, Analyst Member of the New Lacanian School and of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne and former director of Le Courtil, an institution for the psychoanalytic treatment of children located in Belgium. With presentations by members of the Lacan Circle of Australia.
Forum 2018
Sexual Identity, Desire and Jouissance and Other Ideas to Live By
Mari Ruti, Canada, author of The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life
NLS Congresses
The XXII NLS International Congress, Clinic of the Gaze, was held during May 2024. The details are here
The XXI NLS International Congress, Discontent and Anxiety in the Clinic and in Civilisation, was held in Paris during May 2023 The details are here
The XX NLS International Congress, Fixation and Repetition, was held in Lausanne, Switzerland during July 2022 The details are here
WAP Congresses
The XIV WAP Congress, Everyone is Mad, was held during February 2024. the details are here
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