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Psychoanalysis Los Angeles California Extension

A Reform of Understanding

Today, a Reform of Understanding has taken place that no longer subordinates psychoanalysis to the disciplines of psychology, psychotherapy, or psychiatry. Call this movement an Enlightenment: a shift from the self-imposed passivity that disciplines of the ‘psy’ presuppose once the responsibility for thought and the act of speech is handed over to the experts. What else would there be? It is precisely a response to this question that is unheard of today and requires explanation.

PLACE opens up a return to Freud through an archaeology of contemporary psychoanalysis and a construction in the topology first advanced by Lacan.

Requests for more information on the seminars, work-groups, conferences, and sessions, are received by the secretary then referred to the analysts currently working with PLACE.

Organizational History

Psychoanalysis Los Angeles California Extension was found in January 1998 as an educational nonprofit 501c3 when one of its founders returned from France to set up its framework. It is supported by private contributions, grants, and endowments from those individuals and foundations concerned with promoting an authentic praxis of Lacanian analysis.

The current association guidelines are reviewed bi-annually and are found here: Association Regulations