Why Convergencia?
Aimed at the advance in the treatment of crucial questions in Psychoanalysis, Convergencia Movimiento Lacaniano por el Psicoanálisis Freudiano (Convergencia - Lacanian Movement for Freudian Psychoanalysis) was founded in Barcelona in 1998 by forty-five Psychoanalytical Associations from Argentina, Germany, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, United States, France, Italy and Uruguay.
In pursuit of that objective, each Member Institution of the Movement shows the differences it legitimates from one or more aspects in the real of the cure through a triennial Congress, regional Congresses, Conferences, Forums or activities in which at least two Member Institutions take part. That is, from the thesis supported in some of the stages of Lacan's teaching based on Freud's invention.
Thus, this new type of link among psychoanalysts differs from the installation of the pyramidal and authoritarian structure typical of a supra-institution to the extent that the multiplicity of languages, readings and the diversity of the different institutional positions comprising it, is not considered to be a shortcoming. The Movement sets itself out to house in its heart the principle of the fruitful difference present in such enunciative positions.
In its act of foundation, Convergencia also commits itself to find a response to today's new forms of civilization's discontent. Moreover, part of our objectives is to offer the psychoanalysts assembled in Convergencia a political force for supporting their social registration in the various international contexts where they act.
