The Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis is dedicated to the transmission of psychoanalysis. This takes the forms of the teaching of psychoanalysis, the training of analysts and research in the psychoanalytic field within the Lacanian orientation.

ACP 2012 Calendar of events (PDF, 221kB).

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2012 Events

February 18: Orientation To The Year's Work

April 13-15: International Lacan Seminar with Dr Colette Soler

August 31 - September 2: International Lacan Seminar with Dr Luis Izcovich

October 13: XIIIth ACP Symposium - Psychoanalytic Acts: Effects of the Real

November 10: Sydney Lacan Seminar Workshop

Further information can be found in the ACP 2012 Calendar of events (PDF, 221kB).

Orientation To The Year's Work

On Saturday, February 12 an orientation to the year's work on the aims and ends of analysis will be held for members and students of the ACP. Convenors of the Centre's Seminars will give an outline of the work of each Seminar and bibliographies of the key texts to be studied during the year will be distributed.

- Saturday February 18, 10.00am-11.30am
- Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville

For further information contact:
Dr Serena Smith, 0409 191 404, serena.smith (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.

International Lacan Seminars

Psychoanalysts and teachers of international standing conduct intensive weekend seminars on current issues in psychoanalytic theory and practice. There will be two Lacan Seminars in 2012. The seminar is open to members and students of the Centre, and colleagues interested in the discourse and clinic of psychoanalysis.

International Lacan Seminar – April 2012

Dr Colette Soler

- April 13-15, 2012
- Venue: to be confirmed

International Lacan Seminar – August 2012

Dr Luis Izcovich

- August 31 - September 2, 2012
- Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville

For further information contact:
Dr Serena Smith, 0409 191 404, serena.smith (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.
or Dr Carl Scuderi, carl.scuderi (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.

XIIIth ACP Symposium - Psychoanalytic Acts: Effects of the Real

In 2012 the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis will turn its attention to studying the place of psychoanalysis in out times, its clinical and political effects. We know from our collective clinical experience that psychoanalysis impacts upon the real of the symptom, the real of the organism, and the possibility of social bonds. Nevertheless it is necessary for us to continue posing questions about how we achieve these effects and demonstrate the efficacy of the work we undertake as psychoanalysts. These questions build on our previous year's research into the aim of analysis, understood as the production of a new relation with the symptom, a know-how [savior-faire] with jouissance.

- Saturday, October 13, 2012, 9.00am-5.00pm
- Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville

For further information contact:
Dr Serena Smith, 0409 191 404, serena.smith (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.
or Dr Carl Scuderi, carl.scuderi (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.

Sydney Lacan Seminar Workshop

– Saturday November 10th, 2012

Enquiries to Dr Ofelia Brozky:
(02) 9389 2389, ofelia.brozky (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.