Seminar of the School by Colette Soler - The Analytic Act
Schedule
Sun Jan 25 2026 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
UCL Cruciform Building | London, EN
Join us for the first International Seminar of the School of the Lacanian Field in English with Colette Soler on the theme: the Analytic ActAbout this Event
The Forum of London is honoured to launch the very first International Seminar of the School in the English language, perhaps proper to our School, itself “international in scope" ()
This Seminar of the School opens a series of six monthly presentations by AMEs from the School of Psychoanalysis of the International of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (IF-SPLF) on the theme of 'The Analytic Act: Conditions and Consequences', between January and June 2026.
HYBRID EVENT
Venue: University College London, Cruiciform Building, B.4.04-LT2, Gower St, London, WC1E 6BT & via Zoom
Date and Time: 25/01/2026, 20:00 GMT
The Analytic Act: Conditions and Consequences
Colette Soler (Presenter), Darian Leader (Discussant) and Daphne Tamarin (Chair)
The choice of this theme is not a coincidence; the Analytic Act, first put forward by Lacan in 1967, by-passes the ‘individual’ analysts, regardless of their geographical, historical and even theoretical background, to target the question of what operates in a psychoanalysis? What differentiates and is specific to a psychoanalysis, in the singular, from all other practices of ‘psy’, more or less interpretative, and even the different currents in psychoanalysis itself?
Lacan gave the seminar on the Analytic Act in the same year that he presented the Proposition on the psychoanalyst of the School (October 1967). He lays down his conception of the conditions and place from which the analyst operates: an “elective moment” of passage from analysand to analyst, he says, found at the end of an analysis, at the same time as at the beginning...
The questions are many, but let us note, that two months after the “Proposition of 67”, Lacan asks the following astonishing question: “Will the ‘Proposition’ be an act?”, and he responds: “That depends on its consequences, as soon as they begin to occur.” And so, the question that links the Act to the School is posed.
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Colette Soler practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Paris. She holds an agrégation in philosophy and a doctorate in psychology. It was her encounter with the teaching and person of Jacques Lacan that led her to choose psychoanalysis. She was a member of the École Freudienne de Paris and, following its dissolution, became the Director of the École de la Cause Freudienne, after which she was at the forefront of the movement of the International of the Forums and its School of Psychoanalysis. She has been a member of the Forum of London since 2021.
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and founding member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London. His books include 'Is It Ever Just Sex', 'Jouissance; Sexuality, Suffering and satisfaction', 'Why Can't We Sleep?', The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression', 'What is Madness', 'Hands', and 'Strictly Bipolar'.
Dr Daphne Tamarin is a Psychoanalyst, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Founding Member of the Forum of Israel and the Forum of London and Co-translator of two books by Colette Soler: ‘Humanisation?’ and ‘Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter’.
Where is it happening?
UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London, United KingdomGBP 0.00
