The Colorado Analytic Forum is a space dedicated to the transmission and practice of psychoanalysis. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3), within the International of the Forums of the Lacanian Field and its School.
Our Forum encourages the development and the teaching of psychoanalysis as oriented by the works of S. Freud and J. Lacan. At a local level our Forum promotes the activities concerning the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (IF-SPFLF).
To this end, in 2014 the Forum founded the Clinical College of Colorado to address the theoretical and clinical formation of Lacanian analysts.
The Colorado Analytic Forum is also dedicated to the community through the Lacanian Clinic, which is a reduced fee referral service that links interested parties with Lacanian analysts. Analysis is offered for both adults and children in English, Spanish and French.
The Colorado Analytic Forum is a space dedicated to the transmission and practice of psychoanalysis. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3), within the International of the Forums of the Lacanian Field and its School.
Our Forum encourages the development and the teaching of psychoanalysis as oriented by the works of S. Freud and J. Lacan. At a local level our Forum promotes the activities concerning the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (IF-SPFLF).
To this end, in 2014 the Forum founded the Clinical College of Colorado to address the theoretical and clinical formation of Lacanian analysts.
The Colorado Analytic Forum is also dedicated to the community through the Lacanian Clinic, which is a reduced fee referral service that links interested parties with Lacanian analysts. Analysis is offered for both adults and children in English, Spanish and French.
Our Forum was founded in 2009. It arose from the interest of some local analysts in studying the clinical impact of Lacanian theory in psychoanalysis.
The Colorado Analytic Forum of the Lacanian Field was the first intitution of Lacanian analysis in Colorado. Since the beginning we have worked to create a cultural presence in the community. We started with the Wednesdays at the Forum, a monthly space where members of the Forum can present their work, be it a clinical case or a theoretical question. The Forum also hosts two International Seminars per year, an opportunity to hear the work of one or two keynote speakers from overseas along with local colleagues. And our School Talks are dedicated to matters of the functioning of the School, such as the cartels and the pass.
In time, more and more people became interested in Lacanian analysis, particularly in how its experience has an incontestable effect on desire. As our community grew, we founded the Clinical College of Colorado to address the formation of Lacanian analysts. Since then we launched the Lacanian Clinic, which creates an opportunity for the local community to experience Lacanian analysis at a reduced fee.
The International of the Forums (IF) federates the activities of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (FLF) whose initiative was launched on July of 1998 in Barcelona, and develops among them new links of work.
These Forums find their origin in the dissolution (1980) of Lacan’s School, the Ecole Freudianne du Paris . They proceed from a movement that at the time in France chose a new School, the School of the Freudian Cause, which then extended in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Italy, Spain, and elsewhere. Born in 1998 from an opposition to the wrong use of the One in psychoanalysis, the Forums aim to an institutional alternative oriented by the teachings of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Since the crisis of 1998, the Forums pursue a counter-experience.
The Forums federated in the IF-SPFLF are of the Lacanian Field. They take their name from the developments that Jacques Lacan dedicated to this notion in his Seminar The other side of psychoanalysis.
Their main aim is deduced at the same time from this origin and this reference: to contribute to keeping the analytic discourse’s wager alive in the conjunctures of the century.
These Forums of the Lacanian Field are not Schools and do not give any analytic guarantee. As Lacan said about the Freudian Cause after the dissolution of the EFP: “it is not a School, but a field,” and also: “it will have its School.”
The main objective of the Forums is unfolded according to three axes: critique, articulation with other discourses, and orientation towards a School of Psychoanalysis. The connections with all social practices and policies that the symptoms of our time face, and the links with other theoretical practices (science, philosophy, art, religion, etc.), will be its special area of incumbency.
The Assembly of the IF met on December 16th of 2001 in Paris and proclaimed the creation of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (SPFLF).
The School of psychoanalysis is a specific form of link among analysts. It was invented by J. Lacan as a response to the impasses of the associative form that were founded by Freud himself.
The School is governed by the text of “Principles for a School oriented by the teachings of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan”. The Forums are oriented to the School that gives them its sense, given that it is the School the one dedicated to cultivate the analytic discourse. Thus, the School is denominated School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (SPFLF).
Experience proves that this discourse is always threatened by repression, by the tendency of getting lost and diluted in common discourse. Even though the psychoanalyst “is only authorized by himself”, this authorization in act cannot be sustained without some others, in a set animated by a transference of work and oriented by the analytic cause.
By way of the cures, the supervisions, the personal work on the texts, the common elaboration in small groups called cartels, by the test of transmission of the pass, the School makes an effort to put in circulation and submit to control the knowledge that is deposited from the experience and without which there is no analytic act. For this central place given to the elaboration of knowledge is called a School, but no less than for its reference to an ethic in accord with psychoanalytic discourse.
The School of psychoanalysis is a specific form of link among analysts. It was invented by J. Lacan as a response to the impasses of the associative form that were founded by Freud himself.
The School is governed by the text of “Principles for a School oriented by the teachings of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan”. The Forums are oriented to the School that gives them its sense, given that it is the School the one dedicated to cultivate the analytic discourse. Thus, the School is denominated School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (SPFLF).
Experience proves that this discourse is always threatened by repression, by the tendency of getting lost and diluted in common discourse. Even though the psychoanalyst “is only authorized by himself”, this authorization in act cannot be sustained without some others, in a set animated by a transference of work and oriented by the analytic cause.
By way of the cures, the supervisions, the personal work on the texts, the common elaboration in small groups called cartels, by the test of transmission of the pass, the School makes an effort to put in circulation and submit to control the knowledge that is deposited from the experience and without which there is no analytic act. For this central place given to the elaboration of knowledge is called a School, but no less than for its reference to an ethic in accord with psychoanalytic discourse.
The School of psychoanalysis is a specific form of link among analysts. It was invented by J. Lacan as a response to the impasses of the associative form that were founded by Freud himself.
The School is governed by the text of “Principles for a School oriented by the teachings of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan”. The Forums are oriented to the School that gives them its sense, given that it is the School the one dedicated to cultivate the analytic discourse. Thus, the School is denominated School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (SPFLF).
Experience proves that this discourse is always threatened by repression, by the tendency of getting lost and diluted in common discourse. Even though the psychoanalyst “is only authorized by himself”, this authorization in act cannot be sustained without some others, in a set animated by a transference of work and oriented by the analytic cause.
By way of the cures, the supervisions, the personal work on the texts, the common elaboration in small groups called cartels, by the test of transmission of the pass, the School makes an effort to put in circulation and submit to control the knowledge that is deposited from the experience and without which there is no analytic act. For this central place given to the elaboration of knowledge is called a School, but no less than for its reference to an ethic in accord with psychoanalytic discourse.
The Clinical College of Colorado was founded in 2013, in response to an increasing interest of the community in Lacanian analytic formation. This space is solely committed to the formation of analysts. We have weekly seminars, -typically 4 to 6- that are dedicated to the study of Psychoanalysis, mainly Freud and Lacan. While our seminars address the theoretical corpus of psychoanalysis, our clcasses have clinical illustrations of what is being discussed, in such a way that the theory and the practice of analysis are in sync. We also have a clinical workshop that meets byweekly, which is dedicated purely to the discussion of clinical cases.
The formation of analysts involves what is known as the Freudian tripod (the study of the theory, the contol analysis or supervision, and the personal analysis of the analyst), yet in the Lacanian formation none of these aspects is standarized so that they transmit desire.
For more information, please visit: www.clinicalcollegeofcolorado.com
*All faculty members of the Clinical College of Colorado are members of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Lacanian Field.
At this crucial time, it is a pleasure to present and to inaugurate Actually, Lacan, the analytic publication of the Colorado Analytic Forum of the Lacanian Field, and the Clinical College of Colorado. In consonance with our transmission, this publication has a few articles that speak of desire from different points of view, including the paradoxical nature of human desire, articles which are inspiring in the way they convey the psychoanalytic approach to the symptom, and articles that speak of the transmission of the Lacanian clinic, always inspired in Freud’s first act. All authors in this volume are members of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Lacanian Field, some located in the United States, some in Brazil and others in Argentina.
(From the Introduction, by Gabriela Zorzutti)