The Lacanian Forum of Washington, DC

The Lacanian Forum of Washington, D.C. is part of the International of the Forums of the Lacanian Field. The forums first arose out of the dissolution, in 1980, of the School of Lacan, the EFP (École freudienne de Paris). Their main purpose is to support a school of psychoanalysis which would guarantee the study of psychoanalysis and orient its practice. The School was created in Paris, in December 2001, at the time of the Second Meeting of the International of the Forums.

The forums ensure the existence and effects of analytic discourse in our century, by maintaining links with health care institutions, with social and political practices that confront the symptoms of our time, and with other theoretical practices (science, philosophy, art and religion) that imply the subject.