It seems to me that there are three aspects to the way in which this governance is coming to an end: the restart, the après-coup and the point de capiton [quilting point]. The restart, as I read it in my analytic position, in my own analysis, is what comes after an end. So it’s the end of a function that has been embodied, but that restarts, that is rejuvenated, reinvented, renewed and all these steps are taken not without taking up again, après-coup, what we have experienced with the council, the bureau and the orientation of the WAP during almost 3 years of governance. And the last point is a quilting point that I am reading at this moment of conclusion of the trajectory that has involved the stages of a year zero in a School as diverse as the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana of the Freudian Field. It’s a School that encompasses nine Latin American countries, all different from one another, 13 sections, each with its own features, its own symptoms, that teach what analytic reading is. It is therefore this particularity of what is a School of psychoanalysts, which is not an analytic society, that I take with me, with enormous gratitude for the trust placed in me and in the hope that this mark of what is a presidency of one of the WAP schools will continue.
*Outgoing President of the NEL
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Translated by Peggy Papada
<< MEXICO >> This is one of the School’s most recent sections, yet it has had a very important trajectory. It is a section that grew out of many members who had migrated from Argentina, from Venezuela, from different places. But the trajectory it has had, the decided and committed desire of its members, of its associates, the training activities, the orientation of the School for this Section has been so important that we already have several Mexican members who have been trained by the section itself. In addition to the growth that this implies for the section, the Mexican members are teaching us how to read the different groups and interests that exist throughout the country. There are many groups very interested in psychoanalysis that approach the School and as Mexico is very diverse, like many countries of the NEL, the locals teach us to read and to transmit, and to better address this interested public so that they approach the School and so that the path towards the School becomes effective. We think that in several of these inland locations, we will soon have initiatives towards the School.
There are young people who are interested, there are young people in formation, those we call friends of the School, who are in any case involved with the School. We need to work on our youth policy and update it and take ourselves very seriously when we address young people. In Mexico, we have a lot of work to do, we have to be able to reach out and speak the language of the other, in terms of youth, so that we can attract these desires that, if not, the truth is, they are co-opted by other orientations. If young people don’t find psychoanalysis on their path, they will most likely find another path in terms of treatment, mental health, psychology and psychiatry. You have to get there in time and awaken that latent desire.
*Treasurer and member of the NEL Council
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Translated by Amal Wahbi
One of the biggest novelties, and I think it is something structurally new for the Institute (INES), is that historically, the FAPOL president was the director of INES. This has been the case for many years and there has never been a coincidence between a member of the NEL and the director of INES because the president of FAPOL or the presidents who preceded him were not members of the NEL. My mandate thus marked the coincidence: namely that a president of FAPOL, NEL member, assumed this function. This has been accompanied by, let’s say, a re-launch, a re-founding of the School, which has inevitably affected the Institute, because we know that the Institute, as a partner of the School, has not been spared by all the changes that have taken place.
I remember that, at the time, Angelina was kind enough to orient us on how this process of renewal was going to be carried out, in order to clarify the coordinates with the movements that had to be made, so that the Institute could then renew itself, bring itself up to date and be not only up to date with the School and its movement, but also with the symptoms and obstacles that, like any structure, it encounters. From that point on, we embarked on a very interesting process, a long and arduous process until where we have arrived today. There is a total renovation, but there is something that doesn’t change: INES is INES. It’s like Theseus’ boat, with all this renovation, with its structures, with its regulations and with everything that is taking place.
*Director of INES and former President of FAPOL
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Translated by Anna de Filippi
<< Colombia>> In the particular case of the NEL in Colombia, there are three sections that are working, the Bogota section to which I belong, the Medellín section and the Cali section. It is very interesting because with the renewal of the NEL, since its legalisation and the change in statutes that took place, we have been authorised to exist in a state governed by the rule of law, and this has begun to have effects on the sections. Starting with the name, we are no longer headquarters, we are sections, that is, we are part of the School and engages us to a transferential work oriented towards the School. This seems to me to be absolutely important.
I would say that in general, in the NEL in Colombia, there are two very strong points to work on, one in relation to a social and political question, which is how can psychoanalysis have an impact on the field of politics, which is a question about formation and those who are beginning to authorize themselves; the young analysts who are beginning to authorize themselves in their formation. It seems to me that this is a question that we are working on in one way or another in the different sections. The other very important point which is also linked to the restart of the NEL is that of the communities by country; the work of the communities by country, particularly in Colombia, and the way in which the NEL in Colombia is beginning to appear in the ways in which it can be extended in terms of growth, but also in terms of possibilities of vectorisation towards the School.
The movement that has statutorily been generated has an impact on the articulation between the One that guides us with a constituted council and the sections, which is the multiple of our School. We have been able to have conversations at the level of the NEL as a whole during these 3 years. This has been my work with the Council, that is, the WAP Council’s guiding letter has been implemented.
Finally, the policy that has guided us from the WAP is the youth policy, for which, I think the members are concerned wondering how we can welcome young people, how we can orient this work. This will be a huge responsibility, but also an opportunity, once again, for the growth of the NEL.
*Outgoing WAP Council member
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Translated by Renata Teixeira
Thank you very much, Mondō. Indeed, after the time we called the restart of the NEL, which required a lot of work and was a time of great introspection to review the School we wanted and the School we had, we are now in a different time. As Jacques-Alain Miller put it when he quoted Quevedo: what time is it? Is it the time of the School? It’s always the time of the School. It is the time of the NEL in relation to the WAP’s Schools and the School One. How can we make the time of the School and the One of the orientation? Let’s know the time, let’s know the time of the NEL at this moment. We are leaving the moment of introspection for a moment of openness, which we also call “Open Doors”, open to the Freudian Field, open to the analytic community of the Lacanian Orientation and also open to the possibility of growth in the region.
We have reformulated the Seminar of the School in line with the School’s Study Days. The international guests articulate in the same Seminar, the theme of work articulated with the Study Days of the School, i.e. throughout the year we will work on a programme that goes in the same direction. Under the form of an international Colloquium-Seminar, we read the Schreber case and also “on a Preliminary Question . . .”.
Our Study Days will focus on the body in psychosis. In this seminar, we are trying to find a better balance between presence and virtuality. Virtuality helps us to function in the daily life of the School, it allows us to do many things, but at the same time we need a balance. In order for the School One to materialize somewhere, we chose the cities of Santiago de Chile, Caracas and Mexico City, where there is a strong presence, and we asked that the zoom transmission not be received individually, but rather by connecting points in the 13 sections of the School. There are 13 sections, 2 initiatives of the School and also Open Doors where there are groups working in transference.
The School is going to organize its first Cartel Study Day. We’ve never had a day that brought the School together in person and virtuality as we’re going to do on the first of November in Bogotá prior to the Cartel Study Day. Finally, we will have a new series for the Bitácora Lacaniana review, inspired by Jacques-Alain Miller’s orientation, it will be called “Lire Lacan”[Reading Lacan], not without Freud, Reading Lacan and we will go through Lacan’s Seminars one by one.
*President of the NEL
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Translated by: Amal Wahbi, Anna de Filippi