Our summer meeting was delightful and, it seems, well received. It was an opportunity to listen to the testimonies of psychoanalysts, themselves readers of Lacan, questioning the relevance of a teaching.  We listened to practitioners questioning themselves based on their own experience of having been analysands. The Discourse of the University, or even that of the Master, which could have provided a form of reassurance to the participants, made room for the singular enunciations of clinicians.

Also, after studying Lacan’s seminar on The Act, our Association is organizing its year’s activities around his seminar on Transference. This is a timely sequence, which concerns the core of our practice. Building on Ethics, a seminar in which Lacan clarifies the analyst’s positioning, this seminar on Transference will have us work on what enables the analyst to operate: the assumption of knowledge addressed to him. Working in transference will allow the analysand to learn something about his desire, about the division between knowledge and truth.

The tone is set: this seminar will confront us with the ethics that characterize our practice, without shying away from the difficulties.  Our winter seminar which we’d habitually hope to be Freudian, will focus on clinical implications. We will have the opportunity to examine how the transference has evolved since Lacan’s seminar. Does the evolution of our relationship to authority have any effect on it?

Let’s go ahead and traverse this text together, weaving a work transference across the different cities where we practice. This type of transference requires a foundation of trust, of course, but let’s add the seriousness and rigor that characterize the ALI; and let’s lean on this unifying center of gravity that is the study of Lacan’s seminar.

Omar Guerrero

Translated by Lorena Strunk