What Is the Real?

LCNY Seminar 2026/2027 What is the real? This provocative question will open the 2026/2027 LCNY Seminar, which will begin in October 2026 and continue through December 2027. The question gives its title to the first text we will read: The Experience of the Real in...

Starting Analysis

Lacanian Press presents: "Starting Analysis" by Thomas Svolos  An introduction to psychoanalysis: the experience of starting a psychoanalytic treatment, both as a patient and an analyst; the experience of engaging with the psychoanalytic School and what makes the...

Lacanian Review 18: Formations of the School

A new issue of The Lacanian Review (No. 18), “Formations of the School,” has just been published. Edited by Cristina Rose Moro, the issue examines the structures that sustain psychoanalytic work in the School—supervision, cartels, and the Pass—alongside reflections on...

Lacan Versus Foucault

Lacanian Press present: "Lacan Versus Foucault" by Aurélie Pfauwadel It was this gap between my experience as an analysand and my reading of Foucault that made me want to “respond” to him from Lacan’s point of view. Lacan had endeavored to think of the conditions of...

Lacanian Compass is a group dedicated to the development and promotion of the Lacanian orientation of psychoanalysis in the United States, psychoanalysis as first described by Sigmund Freud and elaborated by Jacques Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller.

Lacanian Compass is an associated group of the New Lacanian School (NLS) and our programs are in coordination with the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP). Activities of Lacanian Compass include weekly seminars, Clinical Study Days (CSD), virtual seminars, the LC Express journal, and cartels.

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Lacan Versus Foucault

Lacan Versus Foucault

Lacanian Press present: "Lacan Versus Foucault" by Aurélie Pfauwadel It was this gap between my...