World Association of Psychoanalysis

World Association of Psychoanalysis
Formation1992
FounderJacques-Alain Miller
TypeNonprofit
HeadquartersParis
President
Christiane Alberti
AffiliationsLacanian
Websitewww.wapol.org/en/Template.asp

The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) is an organisation dedicated to promoting the development of psychoanalysis across the world. It follows the teaching of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and was launched at the initiative of his student and son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1992. It was then officially declared in Paris four days later.[1] Its statutes[2] are modelled on Lacan's "Founding Act"[3] and adopt the principles outlined in his "Proposition" on the Pass.[4]

  1. ^ Price, A. "Editorial" to Hurly-Burly, Issue 6, September 2011, p. 10.
  2. ^ "Statutes of the WAP", published on the website of the London Society
  3. ^ Lacan, J., "The Founding Act" in Television/A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, pp. 97-106.
  4. ^ Lacan, J., "Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the Psychoanalyst of the School" in Analysis, Issue 6, 1995, pp. 1-13.