Christiane Alberti (ECF, AMP) interviewed by Vera Avellar Ribeiro (EBP, AMP)
In her book, L’Amour et l’inconscient à l’époque de l’individualisme démocratique (Love and the Unconscious in the Age of Democratic Individualism), Christiane Alberti highlights the many important publications she produced for the analytic community throughout her career as a psychoanalyst. This time, as she told us, after kindly accepting our request for an interview, Angelina Harari gave her the idea for this book.
It is a path throughout fictions that permeate subjectivity, crossed by a common thread where two coordinates are intertwined: the contemporary exigency of rights and the pursuit for equality that penetrate all fundamental bonds. A series of interventions that intersect crucial questions of the contemporary malaise in which having takes precedence over being, as evidenced by the decline of passions of being and instead, the exacerbation of hatred.
Last but not least, we can therefore ask ourselves if love did not finally find its last refuge in psychoanalysis. It’s certainly a bet!
Thank you, Christiane, for this common thread.
May every reader make a good use of it!
* Translated from French by Renata Teixeira.
Anaëlle Lebovits Quenehen (ECF, AMP) interviewed by Laura Sokolowsky (ECF, AMP)
The magazine was published in an extremely offensive context that targeted the psychoanalytic orientation in mental health care institutions in France.
As we noticed, the intensity of the offensive began in November 2025. Since the beginning of 2026, this year has been marked by a series of offensives that claims to move forward in the name of science.
The editorial line aimed to identify those who are the carriers of this new and unfounded ideology, because what we observed from the surveys that were conducted for the magazine was that nothing in this offensive can be claimed to be scientific. So, the magazine is obviously a tool for combat and to inform accurately. The first issue, entitled The Engineers of Evil, draws several portraits of a variety of people who participate in this aggressive attack and propaganda to discredit psychoanalysis in the field of mental health.
The choice of paper format aimed at it being read and distributed, and the first feedback is that this issue is selling well, it is diffused and politicians received it.
You must get this information to be informed.
This magazine has a public utility.
A series will follow, the following or the third issue will be devoted to the French National Authority for Health, which classified psychoanalytic approaches as “not recommended” whereas before they were “non-consensual” to treat autism.
Colleagues of the World Association of Psychoanalysis are invited to take it into consideration, to read this excellent magazine and to support the action in favor of psychoanalysis.
* Translated from French by Renata Teixeira.
Anne Lysy (ECF, AMP) interviewed by Peggy Papada (NLS, AMP)
Le temoignage et son Making Of is a book published by the Presses Psychanalytiques de Paris, publishing house of the School and the Champ Freudien, under the direction of Anne Lysy. In this short interview, as she tells us about this publication which brings together the proceedings of third Journée de la Passe of the ECF, Anne Lysy reminds us of the importance of the pass in the Lacanian School.
The focus is on the first testimony, the public demonstration of the pass, which puts an emphasis on the public and the effects on it. The pass is a performance not a competence and what is more, it testifies to the lying truth. There is thus a stress on the fiction of the pass, only to reveal the inherent gap, to the extent that not all can be said, to the extent that there is always a tension between fiction and real, demonstration and opacity.
Anne Lysy invites us to welcome this gap, the opening, the surprise reminding us that mastery and ignorance of one’s own preconceptions are the enemies of the pass.
The first testimony is explored not only from the perspective of the first testimony of newly appointed Analysts of the School, but also from the perspective of those who had been nominated as Analysts of the School in the past and were invited to return to their first testimony to try to say what had remained in the shadows of their written account.
Jacques-Alain Miller and others
Luisa Aragón (NEL, AMP) interviewed by Raquel Cors Ulloa (NEL, AMP)
MONDŌ announces a recent publication of the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis (ELP). It is a book by Jacques-Alain Miller and collaborators entitled “Política de la transferencia, los cuatro seminarios que acompañaron la Fundación de la ELP (1998-1999)” (Politics of transference, the four seminars that followed the foundation of the ELP 1998-1999). This publication, written in nearly 500 pages, explores the reading and interpretation of Spanish psychoanalysts and proposes to reread them with a view from the logic of the future perfect, which is to look back and ask questions. One in particular, ‘what did the School become?
On this occasion, Raquel Cors (AMS), member of the NEL and the WAP, interviews Luisa Aragón, member of the NEL and the WAP, and current president of her School, to ask her if this “looking back” causes the same effect in a School like the NEL?
Considering that the publication of this volume gathers valuable texts that followed the creation of the ELP, this interview – like a moebius band – proposes to ask whether the production of these Seminars contributed to the transference of work, or instead, whether the School, as an experience, produced the work.
* Translated from Spanish by Renata Teixeira.
Éric Laurent (ECF, AMP) interviewed by Tomás Verger (Compilateur)
The rupture thesis of Jacques Lacan (1975) is situated beyond Freudian phallocentrism. His teaching surpassed it, since he had already introduced the aphorism There is no sexual relation, an indication from the beginning of his last teaching, as Jacques-Alain Miller points out. This thesis of rupture, introduced in reference to drugs, is a consequence of the phrase There is no sexual relation.
Although Freud linked the use of drugs to masturbatory jouissance, Lacanian conceptualization allows us to consider the limitlessness, the drug addict’s own hope that it will never go down. Limitlessness, which is opposed to detumescence, that is particular to the penile jouissance regime, indicates the presence of a jouissance that is not negativized.
In turn, the invention of the organ that would be necessary, an expression related to the trans question, can be derived from the same rupture thesis and constitutes another facet of what Lacan called the common error of the trans subject. Insofar, it is a perspective, an ideal showed by Saint John of the Cross, it is not necessary to go through surgery to transition to the other side.
Laura Sokolowsky (ECF, AMP) interviewed by Lígia Gorini (ECF, AMP)
On June 6, 2026, Laura Sokolowsky, president of the School of the Freudian Cause, spoke at the Senate in a conference devoted to defending the relationship in mental health care. Her text, which was widely diffused and translated in the Schools of the WAP, struck a chord.
In her interview to Mondō, she returns to the core of her intervention: what links psychoanalysis to the exercise of democracy – freedom of speech, free-association and the possibility, for a subject, to free himself from discourses that claim to protect him. Based on her work on psychoanalysis in Germany in the 1930s, she questions the structural points that resonate with our present, marked by the rise of the far right and the return of segregated discourses.
Given the contemporary attacks targeting psychoanalysis, Laura Sokolowsky reminds us about the need to defend the plurality of approaches and to support health care institutions, in public spaces and in the political field. The strength of Lacanian Action is verified in this shared orientation, which engages colleagues, beyond their worries, to not back down.
* Translated from French by Renata Teixeira.