World Association of Psychoanalysis

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Concepts Psychosexual development Psychosocial development (Erikson) Unconscious Preconscious Consciousness Psychic apparatus Id, ego and super-ego Libido Drive Transference Countertransference Ego defenses Resistance Projection Denial
Important figures Alfred Adler Michael Balint Wilfred Bion Josef Breuer Nancy Chodorow Max Eitingon Erik Erikson Ronald Fairbairn Paul Federn Otto Fenichel Sándor Ferenczi Anna Freud Sigmund Freud Erich Fromm Harry Guntrip Karen Horney Ernest Jones Carl Jung Melanie Klein Heinz Kohut Jacques Lacan Ronald Laing Margaret Mahler Jacques-Alain Miller Otto Rank Sandor Rado Wilhelm Reich Joan Riviere Isidor Sadger James Strachey Ernst Simmel Harry Stack Sullivan Susan Sutherland Isaacs Donald Winnicott
Important works The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) The Ego and the Id (1923)
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Training Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis British Psychoanalytic Council British Psychoanalytical Society Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research International Psychoanalytical Association World Association of Psychoanalysis
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The World Association of Psychoanalysis was launched at the initiative of Jacques-Alain Miller in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1992. It was declared in Paris, four days later, on 7 January. Its statutes are modelled on Jacques Lacan's "Founding Act" and adopt the principles outlined in his "Proposition" on the Pass.

The World Association of Psychoanalysis groups together the École de la Cause freudienne (France); the Escuela de la Orientacion Lacaniana (Argentina); the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanalisis del Campo Freudiano (Spain); the Scuola lacaniana di psicoanalisi (Italy); the European Federation of the Schools of the WAP; the Escola Brasileira de Psicanalise (Brazil); the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (Latin America); and the New Lacanian School.

With over 1, 500 members worldwide, the WAP stands as the largest institutional structure dedicated to the training of psychoanalysts in the Lacanian orientation.

Presidents

• Jacques-Alain Miller (1992-2002)
• Graciela Brodsky (2002-2006)
• Éric Laurent (2006-2010)
• Leonardo Gorostiza (2010-2014)

International Congresses

In 1994 and 1996, the members of the WAP met in Assemblies. Since 1998, the international meetings have taken the form of Congresses.

Number	Year	City	President	Theme
1	1998	Barcelona	Jacques-Alain Miller
2	2000	Buenos Aires	Jacques-Alain Miller
3	2002	Brussels	Jacques-Alain Miller	"Training-Effects in Psychoanalysis: their Site, Causes, and Paradoxes"
4	2004	Comandatuba	Graciela Brodsky	"The Lacanian Practice of Psychoanalysis: without Standards but not without Principles"
5	2006	Rome	Graciela Brodsky	"The Name-of-the-Father; Going without it, Making Use of it"
6	2008	Buenos Aires	Éric Laurent	"The Objects a in the Psychoanalytic Experience"
7	2010	Paris	Éric Laurent	"Semblants and Sinthome"
8	2012	Buenos Aires	Leonardo Gorostiza	"The Symbolic Order in the Twenty-First Century: What are the Consequences for the Direction of the Treatment?"

Preparatory texts for the Congresses are published in Scilicet.

External links

• Official website