The clinical seminar for 2026-2027 will be oriented around the theme of the next congress of the New Lacanian School, “Fantasmatic Scenarios.”

In the seminar, we will focus on the psychoanalytic notion of the fantasy, as it is elaborated in the work of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques-Alain Miller. After situating the crucial texts on the fantasy in Freud, including “A Child is Being Beaten” and “Constructions in Analysis,” we will focus on key lessons from Lacan’s Seminars VI and XIV, alongside excerpts from Miller’s 1982-83 course, “From the Symptom to the Fantasy and Back.” It is in this course that J-AM develops the notion of the fantasy as an axiom, a frame, for the subject’s entire mental life, as it is revealed and constructed in analysis.

Subsequently, we will focus on three movements to locate the fantasy in a psychoanalytic treatment: first, as initially glimpsed when a subject makes a demand for analysis; second, through its construction in analysis; and, third, through the notion of a traversal of the fantasy that posits a separation between the subject and object a.