title: World Association of Psychoanalysis
text: # World Association of Psychoanalysis
  
  The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) was launched at the initiative of Jacques-Alain Miller in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1992. It was declared in Paris, four days later, on 7 January. Its statutes are modelled on Jacques Lacan's "Founding Act" and adopt the principles outlined in his "Proposition" on the Pass.
  
  ## Components
  
  The World Association of Psychoanalysis groups together the École de la Cause freudienne (France); the Escuela de la Orientación Lacaniana (Argentina); the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis del Campo Freudiano (Spain); the Scuola lacaniana di psicoanalisi (Italy); the European Federation of the Schools of the WAP; the Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise (Brazil); the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (Latin America); and the New Lacanian School.
  
  ## Lacanian
  
  With over 2,000 members worldwide, the WAP stands as the largest institutional structure dedicated to the training of psychoanalysts in the Lacanian orientation.
  
  ## Presidents
  
  * Jacques-Alain Miller (1992–2002)
  * Graciela Brodsky (2002–2006)
  * Éric Laurent (2006–2010)
  * Leonardo Gorostiza (2010–2014)
  * Miquel Bassols (2014–2018)
  
  ## 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" |
  
  Preparatory texts for the congresses are published in Scilicet.
  
  