We will be discussing Chapter 4 of Seminar XV (1967 - 1968) L’acte psychoanalytique [The Psychoanalytic Act] delivered on the 6th December 1967.

In response to the IF-SPFLF’s theme for 2025-2026 “The ethics of psychoanalysis and the others”, this Colloquium - a group of ten forum members - is focusing on the ethics of psychoanalysis in relation to the psychoanalytic act, the latter being a key invention of Lacan’s.

It is a space for discussion and the sharing of questions and ideas among colleagues arising from their reading of Seminar XV: The Psychoanalytic Act, and their own research on the topic.

The Colloquium will continue to meet until a new theme is chosen at the Rendezvous in July 2026, in São Paulo.