Slovenian Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis

The Slovenian Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Slovensko društvo za lacanovsko psihoanalizo, SDLP) is a Slovenian professional association founded in 2015 for the development and transmission of the psychoanalysis of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in Slovenia. Its initiator and first president is Nina Krajnik. The association is a partner of the World Psychoanalytic Association and of the New Lacanian School. The association describes itself as the first organization in Slovenia to be an official representative and practitioner of Lacanian psychoanalysis, authorized by Lacan's daughter and president of the Freudian Field, Judith Miller. Its structure was established on the principle of the School of the Freudian Thing founded by Jacques Lacan, and includes psychoanalytic work, cartel groups, a clinical section, and a section for psychoanalytic connections with other fields such as philosophy, literature, art, politics, and medicine. Beyond its clinical and formation activities, the association operates several branded programs. Založba Juno is its publishing house, which, in the spirit of Juno's words from Virgil's Aeneid, publishes domestic and foreign works that move the spaces of thought. Šola Singularis, led by Dr. Nina Krajnik, organizes a program of psychoanalytic formation, seminars with international guests, and events in philosophy, science, and art. The association is also the founder of the IWET Institute (Institute for War and Environmental Trauma), which works in crisis hotspots, provides assistance during natural disasters, organizes clinical meetings, and contributes to environmental and peace efforts. The association hosts clinical meetings and seminars with international Lacanian psychoanalysts, including figures such as Massimo Recalcati and Bruce Fink, and publishes books such as Nina Krajnik's "Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Science and Subject." It is active in the Slovenian and international Lacanian psychoanalytic movement.

The Slovenian Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Slovensko društvo za lacanovsko psihoanalizo, SDLP) was founded in 2015 as an association for the development and transmission of the psychoanalysis of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in Slovenia. Its initiator and first president was Nina Krajnik. The association is a partner of the World Psychoanalytic Association and of the New Lacanian School. It describes itself as the first organization in Slovenia to be an official representative and practitioner of Lacanian psychoanalysis, authorized by Lacan's daughter and president of the Freudian Field, Judith Miller. Its structure was established on the principle of the School of the Freudian Thing founded by Jacques Lacan, and includes psychoanalytic work, cartel groups, a clinical section, and a section for psychoanalytic connections with other fields such as philosophy, literature, art, politics, and medicine. In 2016 the association became engaged in a struggle for the existence of psychoanalysis, issuing a statement alleging that the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis was preventing the presence of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Slovenia and had unauthorizedly translated two of the four published Lacanian seminars into Slovene. The Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis rejected this statement. In June 2016, Jacques-Alain Miller expressed support for the association's president Nina Krajnik and condemned the activity of Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar in relation to Lacanian psychoanalysis in Slovenia. An analysis of the establishment of the association in the Slovenian environment was published in the journal of the New Lacanian School, Lacan Quotidien, and in the bulletin of the international Lacanian movement ZADIG — Zero Abjection Democratic International Group. In psychoanalytic Schools, the case of the struggle for Lacanian psychoanalysis in Slovenia is today cited as an example. Over the following years the association developed its institutional and public-facing activities. It operates Založba Juno, a publishing house that, in the spirit of Juno's words from Virgil's Aeneid, publishes domestic and foreign works that move the spaces of thought. It runs Šola Singularis, led by Dr. Nina Krajnik, which organizes a program of psychoanalytic formation, seminars with international guests, and events in philosophy, science, and art. The association is also the founder of the IWET Institute (Institute for War and Environmental Trauma), which works in crisis hotspots, provides assistance during natural disasters, organizes clinical meetings, and contributes to environmental and peace efforts. The association hosts clinical meetings and seminars with international Lacanian psychoanalysts. Its website lists events such as a clinical meeting on war trauma with Dr. Yana Korobko, a guest seminar by Italian Lacanian psychoanalyst Dr. Massimo Recalcati on 'What Remains of the Father', and a two-day seminar by American Lacanian psychoanalyst Dr. Bruce Fink on 'Desire and Its Interpretation'. It also published Nina Krajnik's book 'Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Science and Subject'.

• 2016

  Association engages in a public struggle for the existence of psychoanalysis, issuing a statement about the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis; Jacques-Alain Miller expresses support for Nina Krajnik in June 2016.

• 2015

  Association founded as an association for the development and transmission of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Slovenia; Nina Krajnik is initiator and first president.

The first organization in Slovenia officially authorized to represent and practice Lacanian psychoanalysis, structured on the model of Lacan's School of the Freudian Thing.

• Založba Juno

  Publishing house of the association, publishing domestic and foreign works that move the spaces of thought.

• Šola Singularis

  School led by Dr. Nina Krajnik organizing a program of psychoanalytic formation, seminars with international guests, and events in philosophy, science, and art.

• Inštitut IWET (Institute for War and Environmental Trauma)

  Institute founded by the association, working in crisis hotspots, providing assistance during natural disasters, organizing clinical meetings, and contributing to environmental and peace efforts.

1. 1Domov - Slovensko društvo za lacanovsko psihoanalizosdzlp.si
2. 2Slovenian Association for Lacanian Psychoanalysis — Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Slovensko društvo za lacanovsko psihoanalizo — Wikipedia (Slovenian)sl.wikipedia.org