7 Schools in the World
The WAP joined the Schools. When the WAP was founded, the following Schools already existed: the ECF, the Venezuelan School and the EEP (European School of Psychoanalysis). It was from the WAP and as General Delegate that J.- A. Miller encouraged the creation of: the Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise (EBP), the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis (ELP), the Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi (SLP), the New Lacanian School (NLS), the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (NEL) – the Venezuelan School having disappeared and the EEP having been redefined. In other words, without the prior creation of the WAP, these Schools would not have come into being.
The WAP recognises and brings together seven Schools located in 33 countries on different continents. The EuroFederation of Psychoanalysis (EFP) brings together four schools in Europe: ECF, ELP, SLP and NLS. The American Federation of Psychoanalysis of the Lacanian Orientation [Fédération Américaine de Psychanalyse d’Orientation Lacanienne (FAPOL)], brings together the three American schools in 12 Latin American countries: EBP, EOL and NEL.
The WAP leaves each of the seven Schools, among which its members are distributed, to their autonomy. It only intervenes in the second instance, at the level of three homologations: the end of analysis (nomination of Analysts of the School, AS) membership (members admission), and guarantee of practice (designation of Analysts Members, AMS). The Schools organise their teachings and publications as they see fit. In addition, each member is free to teach individually and at their own risk.
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The EuroFederation of Psychoanalysis (EFP) is composed of four schools: the ECF, the ELP, the SLP and the NLS. It is the result of a mutation of the European School of Psychoanalysis, which was created in 1990 and became a Federation in 2008. Its aim is to pool current questions and, if necessary, to coordinate the fight against certain health policies applied to mental health in the countries of the European Union.
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The Fédération Américaine de Psychanalyse d’Orientation Lacanienne (FAPOL) was created on 28 January 2012, with the ambition for disseminating Lacan’s teaching and defending psychoanalysis, in the diversity of social contexts it offers, in Latin America. The mission of FAPOL is to maintain close links between the three American Schools recognised by the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) – the Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise (EBP), the Escuela de la Orientación Lacaniana (EOL) and the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (NEL). It makes present the politics of the Lacanian orientation that animates the WAP in the twelve countries where it operates.
Founded in Milan in 2022, the Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi del Campo freudiano aims to transmit the knowledge of psychoanalysis in the field opened by Freud and in the wake of Jacques Lacan’s teaching, to offer it to scientific debate and to establish the qualification of psychoanalyst, as Lacan indicates in his Founding Act in 1964. It is present throughout Italy through its local secretariats, which carry out activities of formation and transmission in many Italian regions. From 2024, the SLPCf has its new headquarters in the centre of Milan.
Created in 2003 by Jacques-Alain Miller, the New Lacanian School (NLS) is the most recent of the 7 Schools founded within the framework of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP). A member of the EuroFederation of Psychoanalysis, it is present is 12 European countries as well as in Australia, Israel, Russia, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Albania. The different languages, the particular history of each group, the singular background of each member – all this contributes to the diversity of the School within the unity of the WAP.
Founded in 2000, the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (NEL) is present in nine Latin America countries: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, where it has 13 sections in different cities. The NEL promotes work in cartels, seminars of formation, clinical and study days, as well as welcoming initiatives that the different local Libraries propose as a practical link in their place of Lacanian action.
Founded on 3 January 1992 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in parallel with the creation of the WAP, the Escuela de la Orientación Lacaniana (EOL) has made itself known and fulfilled its objectives through several mechanisms: The cartel, teaching, publications, an annual study day, and its library. Even though its headquarters are in Buenos Aires, it is composed of Sections, Delegations, Antennas, Cartel Circles in Argentina and in Uruguay.
Founded in 2000, the Escuela Lacaniana de psicoanálisis is a continuation of the Founding Act pronounced by Jacques Lacan in 1964. Its objectives are to promote and develop psychoanalysis, to transmit its knowledge, to offer it to supervision and scientific debate. The School guarantees the psychoanalyst’s relationship with the formation that it provides. Organised in nine Communities with offices in different cities, its field of action is the whole of Spain. It encourages work in cartels, organises annual study days, supports several publications and a work of extension with the libraries of the headquarters. In 2019, it was declared a non-profit organisation of public utility in Spain.
Founded in 1981, the l’École de la Cause freudienne has for aim the transmission of psychoanalysis, the formation of the psychoanalyst and the guarantee of their practice. It was founded in response to Jacques Lacan’s last institutional initiative, who was its president. The ECF was declared a public utility Association by decree on 5 May 2006. It is represented regionally by the Association de la Cause freudienne (ACF). It is not necessary to be a member to follow the teachings and participate in the activities of the School and in the regions of the ACF.
Founded in April 1995 in Rio de Janeiro, the École brésilienne de psychanalyse is composed of seven sections throughout Brazil. The objective of the EBP is to promote the development of psychoanalysis in Brazil, to contribute to the reestablishment of its truth and to transmit its knowledge. Its activities are coordinated with those of the Institutes of the Freudian Field. It collaborates with the Fédération Internationale des Bibliothèques du Champ freudien (FIBCF) and intends to create and develop libraries in each section to collect books, journals and documents of interest to psychoanalysis and its links with other fields.