World Association of Psychoanalysis

The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) is an organisation dedicated to promoting the development of psychoanalysis across the world. It follows the teaching of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and was launched at the initiative of his student and son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1992. It was then officially declared in Paris four days later. Its statutes are modelled on Lacan's "Founding Act" and adopt the principles outlined in his "Proposition" on the Pass.

Structure

With 1,986 members worldwide, and more in affiliated groups, the WAP stands as the largest institutional structure dedicated to the training of psychoanalysts in the Lacanian orientation. It consists of seven fully-functioning Schools:

Four European schools which together form the EuroFédération de Psychanalyse:

The École de la cause freudienne, in France, founded in January 1981
The Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi del Campo Freudiano, in Italy, founded in May 2002
The Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis del Campo Freudiano, in Spain, founded in May 2000
The New Lacanian School, in various European countries and the US, founded in May 2003

Three American Schools which together form the Federación Americana de la Orientación Lacaniana:

The Escuela de la Orientación Lacaniana, in Argentina, founded in January 1992 alongside the WAP
The Escola Brasileira de Psicanalise, in Brazil, founded in April 1995
The Nueva Escuela Lacaniana; which includes Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Chile; founded in July 2000