The XIth Congress of the WAP

 XIth Congress of the WAP

Barcelona, 2^nd – 6^th April, 2018

  

The Ordinary Psychoses and the Others

Under Transference

 

The XIth Congress of the WAP summons us to bring the investigation of the field of the psychoses up to date. Its title, "The Ordinary Psychoses and the Others", indicates that even though it is the former that are highlighted, it is the entire field of the psychoses that is in question. Since the later Lacan does not annul his earlier teaching, now, after the Rio Congress, is the time to return to the structural clinic in order to locate there the clinical references that can orient us.

If the title has maximum scope, it is in order to maintain the Lacanian orientation in all its rigour. The clinic that concerns us is not without ethics; it only arises under transference. Hence neither mental health, nor psychiatry, nor nosological debates will distract us from this central point.

It is perhaps a subtle, barely ironic manner of proposing under transference the entire teaching of Lacan, the latest and the other.

Barcelona, 14th July, 2016

Anna Aromí­, Xavier Esqué

Directors of the XIth Congress

Miquel Bassols

President of the WAP

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