Founded in 1990, the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis offers a transmission of psychoanalysis through a savoir of the unconscious, built gradually in personal analysis and control analyses, alongside an immersion in theory through seminars, events, reading groups, and cartels. These direct experiences of the unconscious inform ethical practices of analysis and scholarship.
Through the School you may study Lacanian and Freudian theory, pursue psychoanalytic formation, obtain clinical supervision from a Lacanian perspective, and find a clinician with whom to undertake or complete a personal analysis. Unless otherwise noted, the School's seminars and events are open to the general public, with no enrollment required. Begun locally, the School is now international, part of a broader worldwide movement for education, research, and treatment in both the Freudian and Lacanian fields.
However you arrive
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Analysts and candidates of the School practice across the country and online. Search by location and language.
Browse practitioners 02 · Wanting to studyAttend the seminars
Year-long teaching seminars, reading groups, and special events, many open to anyone, no prior background assumed.
See the program 03 · Toward formationJoin the work
Formation proceeds through analysis, study, and the cartel, along two tracks: Analyst and Scholar. Learn how it works and how to apply.
About formationComing up
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Sep1SeminarReading Lacan’s Seminar Book VIII: Transference (II)Sep 1 – May 31, 2027 · Online
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Sep1SeminarSecretaries to the Psychotic Subject – Seminar III continuedSep 1 – May 19, 2027 · Online
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Sep4SeminarGraphing Desire, Writing DreamsSep 4 – May 7, 2027 · Online
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Sep5SeminarSounding Out the Signifier: Lacan, Freud, and the Rat ManSep 5 – May 1, 2027 · In person
How we are organized
We are all in formation.
Following Lacan's founding gesture, the School belongs to those who study within it. Its committees, cartels, and seminars are carried by the members themselves, candidates, analysts, and scholars who share the work of its direction.
What we do
Teaching is at the center. Faculty lead seminars that read Freud and Lacan closely; members gather in cartels, small groups formed around a shared question.
Formation follows two tracks, Analyst and Scholar, each with its own path through candidacy. Home to 78 analysts, candidates, and scholars, the School welcomes clinicians, candidates in formation, and scholars from neighboring fields. Much of what we do is open to the public; the rest belongs to the ongoing life of members.
An orientation
The School at a glance
From the one-by-one of analysis to the bodies that carry its common life, a single map of the School's parts and how they fit together, each opening onto what it is and where to go.
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Questions?
Whether you're seeking analysis, considering candidacy, or wondering how to attend a seminar, we'd be glad to hear from you.