Lacanian Cartels are small workgroups (3-4 people plus One) that allow each cartelisand to research their own question regarding a shared theme. It is a primary mode of psychoanalytic study within the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) and is open to anyone interested in Psychoanalysis. In his “Founding Act,” Lacan designated the cartel as a vital organ of the school, one of two lungs, along with the pass. Thus, the cartel, supervision, and personal analysis are considered the three pillars of analytic formation.

We are all subject to not wanting to know, which Lacan called the passion of ignorance. Cartels offer the possibility of mobilizing desire to go beyond this passion. Lacan chose the signifier cartel for its Italian root, cardo (hinge), with its polyvalent meaning of openness to surprise and discovery, against the inertia of closed groups, and transfer of the product of this cartel work out into the school, through written texts or presentations.

The Plus-one is a member of the cartel too and also a member of the school. Occupying a particular position, the Plus-one is neither a master, nor a subject supposed to know. They are responsible for supporting the cartelisands’ work, addressing challenges that may arise, and ensuring the cartel’s hinge function in relation to the school.

Permutation is essential to the cartel’s function, so cartels are dissolved after 1-2 years (flash cartels are shorter than 1 year). Each cartelisand or Plus-one may decide to publish
a “work product”, a written text to be submitted for publication or presentation at the School, either at school events or in the official cartel publication of the New Lacanian School (NLS), 4+one which can be found here.

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Reference texts:

Jacques Lacan, “Founding Act,” Television. A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, ed. Joan Copjec (Norton: New York/ London, 1990), 97.
Jacques-Alain Miller, “Five Variations on the Theme of Provoked Elaboration” trans. Linda Clarke and Florencia Shanahan, 4+one: The NLS Cartels’ Newsletter, No. 5 (February 2018)

J.-A. Miller, “The Cartel in the World” The Cartel at the Centre of a School of Psychoanalysis (1994)

Gil Caroz, “Provoking the crisis” – May 2018 – Cartello No. 20 Cartel policy, by the Executive Board of the ECF

Frank Rollier, “The Cartel’s Whirlwind. Affinities Between the Cartel and Lacanian Psychoanalysis”

Jeff Erbe, “From Lapsus to Linking: A Cartel Testimony”– 4+one N° 10

To create a Lacanian cartel takes a desire to work on a question or subject of interest.
You need 3-4* cartelisands (4 is best) and a Plus-one. The cartel decides on a theme, and each chooses their trait of work (own question related to the theme). They also decide on the structure: modality (virtual, in-person, hybrid), frequency of meetings, and duration. Then the cartel must be declared by the Plus-one with the school (see section “declaration”) and is knotted when the work begins.

Ways to start or join a cartel:

• You can either find other potential cartelisands and ask a member of the school if they would function as Plus-one for your cartel, or
• Ask the LC Cartel Committee for assistance to connect with other potential cartelisands by filling out this form JOIN A CARTEL HERE

If you need assistance finding or contacting members of the school who could function as Plus-one, please contact the Lacanian Compass Cartel Committee at cartels@lacaniancompass.com

LC Cartel Committee:
Maurien Caron (cartel delegate), Elisa Acosta, Jared Elwart, Azeen Khan

Cartels must first be declared and registered by the Plus-one to the New Lacanian School (NLS) using this form.

For cartels that include at least one member of Lacanian Compass, we ask the Plus-one to inform the LC Cartel Committee by sending an e-mail to cartels@lacaniancompass.com with:

• Cartel theme and duration,
• Date of declaration to NLS,
• Names of the Plus One and each cartelisand, accompanied by their singular trait, location and email address.

* Below is a list of current cartels that include members and associates of Lacanian Compass. These cartels have been declared to the New Lacanian School. You can find the complete list of current NLS cartels here https://www.amp-nls.org/cartel-catalogue/

LACANIAN COMPASS | CARTELS

1. What is the relation between anxiety and object petit a?

René Rasmussen (plus-one)
Copenhagen, Denmark
reneras@hum.ku.dk
Phallus, enjoyment and castration

Francine Danniau
Ghent, Belgium
francine.danniau@skynet.be
Anxiety as a path which envisions the real

Maria J. Lopez
Coral Gables, FL, USA
lopez1251@bellsouth.net
Anxiety in a case of psychosis

Janet Haney
London, UK
janetrhaney@gmail.com
The phallus and anxiety

Yordana Hristozova
Sofia, Bulgaria
yhristozova@gmail.com
The clinic of obsession and the Object a

2. Reading Seminar 25

Florencia Shanahan (plus-one)
Dublin, Ireland
florenciashanahan@gmail.com
Desire of the analyst and analytical act in Lacan’s later teaching

Nancy Gillespie
Brooklyn, NY, USA
gillespie.nancy@gmail.com
The use of equivocation and writing otherwise in analysis

Véronique Voruz
Paris, France
verovoruz@me.com
Transmission by resonance

Elizabeth Rogers
Atlanta, GA, USA
elizabeth.rogers.1221@gmail.com
Writing and the body in the last Lacan

Robert Buck
New York, NY, USA
robert.buck69@verizon.net
With no moment to conclude is there now only the momentum to consist?

3. Reading ‘The One All Alone’

Jorge Assef (plus-one)
Cordoba, Argentina
jorgepabloassef@hotmail.com
Demonstrate the real

Thomas Svolos
Omaha, NE, USA
tsvolos@outlook.com
The One and the Other

Anthony Stavrianakis
Paris, France
stavrianakis@gmail.com
Un-curable

Maria Cristina Aguirre
New York, NY, USA
maria.cristinaaguirre@gmail.com
The One all alone and satisfaction

Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff
Brooklyn, NY, USA
cyrus.saint@gmail.com
Self

4.  From the Unconscious to the Real

Domenico Cosenza (plus-one)
Milan, Italy
docosenza03@gmail.com
Contemporary symptoms and the orientation to the real in the late Lacan

Fernando Castrillon
Berkeley, CA, USA
fcastrillon@ciis.edu
Experiments in psychoanalytic transmission via excursions with and through ecological discourses

Jimena Marti
San Francisco, CA, USA / Mexico City, Mexico
marti.jimena@gmail.com
Sense and nonsense of psychoanalytic discourse in front of the contemporary modes of jouissance

Thomas Marchevsky
San Francisco, CA, USA
drmarchevsky@gmail.com
The symptom and sinthome in relation to the capitalist discourse

An Bulkens
Chico, CA, USA
anbulkens@gmail.com
The body and the imaginary in the late Lacan

5. End of analysis and Pass

Jorge Assef (plus-one)
Cordoba, Argentina
jorgepabloassef@hotmail.com
Paradoxes of the pass

Alicia Arenas
Miami, FL, USA
arenasalicia24@gmail.com
The object at the end of analysis

Isolda Alvarez
Miami, FL, USA
alvarez_isolda@yahoo.com
The real of satisfaction in the end of analysis

Juan Felipe Arango
Miami, FL, USA
jfalemos@yahoo.com
The function of passeur

Amal Wahbi
Montreal, Canada
amal.wahbi.psy@gmail.com
From the paradoxes of the pass to the exit of analysis (la sortie de l’analyse)

6. Approaching Lacan

Plus-One: Alicia Arenas

arenasalicia24@gmail.com

From Symptom to Sinthome

Adam Fisher

fadamfisher@aol.com

Beyond Oedipus, General and Sexual Orientation

Gabriella Hyatt

gabriella.hiatt@gmail.com

Name of the Father, Figure of Law

Daniel Genoves

danielruben.gs@gmail.com

Obsessive Neurosis in Lacan

7. Seminar XXIII

Isolda Alvarez (plus-un)
USA
alvarez_isolda@yahoo.com
Other satisfaction

Paushali Bhattacharya
USA
paushalibhattacharya01@gmail.com
The Real uncounscious

Sanem Guvenc
Canada
sanemguvenc@gmail.com
The void and the borromean knots

Noam Miller
USA
noammiller99@gmail.com
Jouissance and (non)relation to it

Xinyu Elinor LI
China
elinor1018@163.com
The sinthome and the name of the father

8.  Anxiety Today

Maria Cristina Aguirre (plus-un)
240 East 35th St. apt. 7 K
NY 10016
United States
maria.cristinaaguirre@gmail.com
The body, anxiety and object a

Jared Elwart
2782 Cranston Circle
IL 60560
United States
frenchhornhero1@gmail.com
Generalized agoraphobia

Leila Yabiku
2755 N. Bosworth Ave.
IL 60614
United States
leilayabiku@gmail.com
Anxiety and surplus jouissance in the cllnic

Cecilia Olmo
12002 Costa del Rey Ct.
TX 77041
United States
cecilia_olmo@hotmail.com
Gadgets and anxiety

9. Fundamental Readings

Return to Seminar I

Maurien Caron (plus-un)
USA
maurienelise@hotmail.com
Psychoanalytical interventions: Reasoning, resonation, and responsibility

Michael McAndrew
USA
mcandrew.mr@gmail.com
The other’s gaze and hunger

Elisa Acosta
USA
elisaacostalcsw@gmail.com
The concept of the cut in Seminar I

Jennifer Braun
USA
leapsntwirls@gmail.com
Intention and Aim

10.  Topic: Psychoanalysis & Philosophy

Sawyer Macres, MA
sawyer.macres, MA
Q: “what is disavowal, how does disavowal relate to belief and the Freudian/Lacanian death drive?” 

Sean Carroll
sjcarroll14@gmail.com
“What is the role and structure of of knowledge of/in philosophy and psychoanalysis?” 

Amanda Lee
A.z.Lee.2018@gmail.con
“How/why is psychoanalysis relevant in a clinical world focused on evidence-based outcomes?”

Michael McAndrew MA, LPC
Mcandrew.mr@gmail.com
“Psychoanalysis, poetry, and philosophy”

11. The Classifiable and Unclassifiable in the Clinic

Sheila Bravo (plus-un)
2525 Embassy Dr Suite 16
33026
United States
305-298-4599
sheilabravo001@gmail.com
The Body in Hysteria and Ordinary Psychosis

Elisa Acosta
East Brunswik
08816
United States
732-713-8341
elisaacostalcsw@gmail.com
Disregulation and the real in clinical diagnoses

Milena Perez
14947 SW 142 Ct
33186
United States
305-766-3159
milenaperezarreaza@gmail.com
Autism or Psychosis? The relationship of the Subject to the Other

Jose Armando Garcia
782 NW 42 Ave # 329
33126
United States
305-323-6016
garja76@hotmail.com
Suppleance by the Imaginary in Ordinary Psychosis

Guida Diaz Marroquin
15710 Holloway Creek Ct
77044
United States
678-717-9081
gdiazmarroquin@gmail.com
A Reading of the Paternal Function in Ordinary Psychosis and Rigid Hysteria.

12. Anxiety

Maria Cristina Aguirre (plus-un)
240 East 35th Street, Apt. 7 K
NY 10016
USA
+1 9175096633
maria.cristinaaguirre@gmail.com
Melancholia and Anxiety

Israel Katz
2491 Washington Street
ÇA 94115
USA
+1 4156733125
sanfrananalista@gmail.com
Anxiety and Ordinary Psychosis

Joshua Curtiss
1367 Hood Road
CA 95825
USA
+1 5109405002
jcurtiss@gmail.com
Anxiety and Little Hans

Jesse Roberts
2739 14th Avenue S. # 2
MN 55407
USA
+1 6122107736
jrdamien@gmail.com
Lacan’s Evolution of Anxiety

Carina Licovich
5418 Deane Ave.
ÇA 90043
USA
+1 3107200424
carinalicovich@gmail.com
Adolescent Body: Variations of Anxiety

13. Ends of Analysis

Florencia Shanahan (plus-un)
4B Seafield Pk
A94A28V
Ireland
00353860673185
florenciashanahan@gmail.com
Testimony, Teaching, Transmission

José Armando García
782 NW 42nd Ave. (LeJeune Rd.). Suite #: 329
33126
USA
+1(305) 323-6016
garja76@hotmail.com
Reductions in the End of an Analysis: final or unfinished?

Mercedes Acuña
1518 Caywood Ln. Atp.B
77055
USA
00-1-713-852-7721
mercedesacunavilla@gmail.com
From the signifier to the letter

Cristina Gonzalez-Garroni
1401 Canary Island Dr
33327
USA
00-1-9544879373
Garronigonzalez@gmail.com
Act and interpretation at the end of analysis

Francine Danniau
Onafhankelijkheidslaan 42
9000
Belgium
0032 479907154
francine.danniau@skynet.be
Forms and moments of transformation in the testimonies of the Pass

The Lacanian Case_
“The Failed Case”
Michael McAndrew, LPC (Plus One)
McAndrew.mr@gmail.com

“What is an intervention?”
Sean Caroll, LPCC
sean@reflectivepoint.com

“What defines a Lacanian case?” 
Christopher Berghoff [new member]
christopher.berghoff1@gmail.com

“What can be learned from reading a case?”
Ashley Patel, LCSW
Ashleymarieepatel@gmail.com

“The language of psychoanalysis”
Cristina Lydon, LPCC

> Oct 25, 2025: NLS Cartel Event: “Why the Cartel? Transference and Work in a Cartel” with Dosia Avdelidi. From 4 to 6:30pm (Paris) / 10am – 12:30pm (EST).  VIRTUAL, more info here https://www.amp-nls.org/calendar/nls-cartel-event-why-the-cartel-transference-and-work-in-a-cartel-with-dosia-avdelidi/

> Upcoming Spring 2026: LC Cartel Event 

CALL FOR CARTELS TOWARDS THE FOLLOWING EVENTS: 

> Feb 27 and 28, 2026:  LC Clinical Study Days 18 “MISUNDERSTANDING IN SEXUALITY” – Miami, FL. The argument can be found here: https://lacaniancompass.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Misunderstanding-in-Sexuality.pdf

> Jun 27 and 28, 2026: Congress of the New Lacanian School “VARITY: VARIATIONS OF TRUTH IN PSYCHOANALYSIS” – Paris, France. The argument can be found here: https://www.amp-nls.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ARGUMENT-NLS-CONGRESS-2026-PBC-1.pdf

> Apr 30 – May 3, 2026: Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, “There is no Sexual Relation” – Paris, France. Refer to the following website for updates: https://congresamp.com/en/