First year

You are online with the new publication of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP).

Its name, Mondō is the inspired idea of its editor, Angelina Harari.

The last word on this title is given to us by Jacques-Alain Miller, thanks to his fortunate discovery its Japanese source. In Zen Buddhism, the two kanji (問答), which make up mondō, in fact mean question and answer when separated but, when put together: dialogue, conversation. Let’s not forget the bar over the “o” that lengthens the “o” sound – Mondooooooo… – as if to draw a perspective, a line on the horizon marking the desire to endure that animates psychoanalysis. Our wager is that Mondō will index itself on this same horizon and endure.

Its orientation. Mondō is the online dispatch of the WAP. Not just any institution, then! This psychoanalytical institution of Lacanian orientation, young at thirty, created to give its framework to the real at stake in the productions of analysts. Mondō is inspired by this ambition. If a response is to be given, it is only valid as a response to the real.

Its destination. Mondō is in dialogue with each of the seven Schools recognised by the WAP. A translinguistic anthology, with a change of focus for each issue, according to current events. A conversation about the life of the institution held viva voce and then written down. What is at stake is to grasp the life of the Schools, on the spur of the moment, oriented not by a professional association, but rather by the analytic session as an experience, in accordance with the model of the School One. In short, the School as a locus of knowledge waiting to be read and realised. The School as instituting the analytic discourse, at each crucial moment.

It is thus entirely logical that Mondō should begin its panorama of the Schools with the École de la Cause freudienne and its most vivid actuality – defining the wager of a new regulation of the pass. Returning to the pass has created an event by producing a cut within the automaton of the institution.

Its readers. Anyone interested in psychoanalysis in the world, anyone with a taste for good encounters with the unconscious, anyone who feels concerned with Lacanian opinion.

Mondō as Mondial. It is a compass, in a time when uprooting and delocalisation are gaining ground, when globalisation is a de-worlding. In such a context, it is no small thing that an institution with a planetary scope should be called, not international but world association [association mondiale]. A world that brings together psychoanalysts in the Lacanian orientation. A world conceived not as a totality, but as Dasein, carried by sense and its use of jouissance in the service of the analytic cause.