"It is tossed by the waves, but does
not sink"
The Freudian School of Melbourne was founded as a
School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in 1977. The School
takes its direction from the writings of Sigmund Freud
and Jacques Lacan. Its task is the investigation and
transmission of psychoanalysis and the formation of
Lacanian psychoanalysts.
The School holds an important place in the history of
psychoanalysis in Australia in having been the first to have
formed Lacanian psychoanalysts in this country; through its
work, opening a possibility which had previously not existed.
Further, the School has opened the study of psychoanalytic
theory and clinical practice to those scholars and clinicians
interested in working with, developing and questioning the
conceptual and clinical dimensions of Lacanian psychoanalytic
theory and practice.
The School holds as fundamental the fact of speaking and
writing psychoanalysis in Melbourne, Australia, with its
particularity of culture, place and time, while not eschewing
its important place in the international psychoanalytic
community and its recognition within the Psychoanalytic
Movement of Lacanian Schools within the world.
In addition to the practice
of clinical psychoanalysis, sustained by psychoanalysts
within the School, and a programme of internal meetings,
seminars, cartels, study groups and clinical discussion
groups, the School offers a programme of activities
for 2008. This programme is addressed to students,
colleagues in related clinical fields, and psychoanalysts
who wish to take up the particularity of their interest
in relation to psychoanalysis; from those with a specific
theoretical or clinical interest those who seek a
serious and rigorous formation as Lacanian psychoanalysts.
