Te Kāinga o te Hui Wānanga o Aotearoa
The Forum of Aotearoa New Zealand - Te Hui Wānanga o Aotearoa - was created in 2010 to further the study and practice of psychoanalysis in the Lacanian field within Aotearoa New Zealand.
It is part of the International of Forums — the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (IF-SFPLF), which was created in 2001 to offer a new institutional model for the transmission of psychoanalysis that is non-hierarchical.
The Forum offers activities initiated by its members free of charge. These activities are based on a transference to the work of psychoanalysis
Membership of the Forum of Aotearoa New Zealand also grants free access to other events organised by other Forums of the School.
You can learn more about the Forum and the International Forums on the ‘About’ page.
Any person with an interest in psychoanalysis is welcome to apply for membership to the Forum of Aotearoa New Zealand by contacting its Delegate. This includes but is not limited to: clinicians, academics, teachers, and artists.
‘I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there’s no way to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it’s through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.’
(Jacques Lacan, Television. Ed. J.A. Miller, Trans. Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson. W.W. Norton & Company, New York; London 1990)