# World Association of Psychoanalysis

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. Its statutes are modelled on Lacan's "Founding Act" and adopt the principles outlined in his "Proposition" on the Pass.

## Structure

With 1,986 members worldwide, and more in affiliated groups, the WAP stands as the largest institutional structure dedicated to the training of psychoanalysts in the Lacanian orientation. It consists of seven fully-functioning Schools:
Four European schools which together form the EuroFédération de Psychanalyse:
* The École de la cause freudienne, in France, founded in January 1981
* The Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi del Campo Freudiano, in Italy, founded in May 2002
* The Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis del Campo Freudiano, in Spain, founded in May 2000
* The New Lacanian School, in various European countries and the US, founded in May 2003
Three American Schools which together form the Federación Americana de la Orientación Lacaniana:
* The Escuela de la Orientación Lacaniana, in Argentina, founded in January 1992 alongside the WAP
* The Escola Brasileira de Psicanalise, in Brazil, founded in April 1995
* The Nueva Escuela Lacaniana; which includes Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Chile; founded in July 2000

## Presidents

* Jacques-Alain Miller (1992–2002)
* Graciela Brodsky (2002–2006)
* Éric Laurent (2006–2010)
* Leonardo Gorostiza (2010–2014)
* Miquel Bassols (2014–2018)
* Angelina Harari (2018–2022)
* Christiane Alberti (2022– )

## International congresses

In 1994 and 1996, the members of the WAP met in "assemblies". Since 1998, the international meetings have taken the form of congresses.
| Number | Year | City | President | Theme |
| 1 | 1998 | Barcelona | Jacques-Alain Miller | |
| 2 | 2000 | Buenos Aires | Jacques-Alain Miller | |
| 3 | 2002 | Brussels | Jacques-Alain Miller | "Training-Effects in Psychoanalysis: their Site, Causes, and Paradoxes" |
| 4 | 2004 | Comandatuba | Graciela Brodsky | "The Lacanian Practice of Psychoanalysis: without Standards but not without Principles" |
| 5 | 2006 | Rome | Graciela Brodsky | "The Name-of-the-Father; Going without it, Making Use of it" |
| 6 | 2008 | Buenos Aires | Éric Laurent | "The Objects a in the Psychoanalytic Experience" |
| 7 | 2010 | Paris | Éric Laurent | "Semblants and Sinthome" |
| 8 | 2012 | Buenos Aires | Leonardo Gorostiza | "The Symbolic Order in the Twenty-First Century: What are the Consequences for the Direction of the Treatment?" |
| 9 | 2014 | Paris | Leonardo Gorostiza | "A Real for the Twenty-First Century" |
| 10 | 2016 | Rio de Janeiro | Miquel Bassos | "The Speaking Body: The Unconscious in the 21st Century" |
| 11 | 2018 | Barcelona | Miquel Bassos | "The Ordinary Psychoses and the Others, under Transference” |
| 12/13 | 2022 | Online | Angelina Harari | "Woman Does Not Exist" |
| 14 | 2024 | Online | Christiane Alberti | "Everyone is Mad" |
Preparatory texts for the congresses are published in Scilicet.