The Forum
Our Forum was founded in 2009. It arose from the interest of some local analysts in studying the clinical impact of Lacanian theory in psychoanalysis.
The Colorado Analytic Forum of the Lacanian Field was the first institution of Lacanian analysis in Colorado. Since the beginning we have worked to create a cultural presence in the community.
We started with the Wednesdays @ the Forum (2010), a monthly space where members of the Forum can present their work, be it a clinical case, a theoretical question or an articulation of both, and also evenings in conversation between psychoanalysis and other discourses in culture.
Internationally, the Forums are oriented to the School, so we added our School Talks @ the Forum (2012) Series, which are dedicated to matters of the functioning of the School, such as the cartels, the pass, but also the link between analysts -analytic discourse-, and the politics of psychoanalysis. We often welcome colleagues from abroad in these events.
The Forum also hosts two International Seminars per year, opportunities to hear the work of one or two keynote speakers from overseas along with local colleagues, typically in connection with the international theme that is being worked among the Forums of the Lacanian Field globally. These International Seminars are also a time where we add a day of work on the School, therefore we intend these seminars to be a hinge between the Forum and the School, between the local and the international.
In time, more and more people became interested in Lacanian analysis, particularly in how its experience has an incontestable effect on desire, and therefore in the very living of a life. As our community grew, we founded the Clinical College of Colorado (2013) to address the formation of Lacanian analysts, that is to bet on the praxis wholeheartedly. Since then we launched the Lacanian Clinic (2018), which is an opportunity for the local community to experience Lacanian analysis at a reduced fee.
The If
The International of the Forums (IF) federates the activities of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (FLF) whose initiative was launched on July of 1998 in Barcelona, and develops among them new links of work.
These Forums find their origin in the dissolution (1980) of Lacan’s School, the Ecole Freudianne du Paris. They proceed from a movement that, at the time in France, chose a new School, the School of the Freudian Cause, which then extended in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Italy, Spain, and elsewhere. Born out of the crisis of 1998, against the pensée unique, the Forums aim at an institutional alternative oriented by the teachings of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, in pursuit of a counter-experience.
The Forums federated in the International of the Forums (IF-SPFLF) and are of the Lacanian Field. They take their name from the developments that Jacques Lacan dedicated to this notion in his Seminar The other side of psychoanalysis.
Their main aim is deduced at the same time from this origin and this reference: to contribute to keeping the analytic discourse’s wager alive in the conjunctures of the century.
These Forums of the Lacanian Field are not Schools and do not give any analytic guarantee. As Lacan said about the Freudian Cause after the dissolution of the EFP: “it is not a School, but a field,” and also: “it will have its School.”
The main objective of the Forums is unfolded according to three axes: critique, articulation with other discourses, and orientation towards a School of Psychoanalysis. The connections with all social practices and policies that the symptoms of our time face, and the links with other theoretical practices (science, philosophy, art, religion, etc.), will be its special area of incumbency.
The Assembly of the IF met on December 16th of 2001 in Paris and proclaimed the creation of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (SPFLF).