Initiative-Toronto is a group founded in 2018, formed to develop and promote the Lacanian orientation in Toronto linked to the New Lacanian School (NLS). NLS is one of the eight schools of the World Association of Psychoanalysis and has made a place for Initiatives in different cities in and beyond Europe: Initiative–Amsterdam (Pays-Bas), Initiative–Berlin (Allemagne), Initiative–Vienne (Autriche), Initiative–Moscou (Russie), Initiative–Tirana (Albanie), Initiative–Ukraine (Kiev et Donetz), Initiative–Toronto (Canada).
Reading Seminars & Special Activities SATURDAYS of month, 11am-12:30pm
09-2024/05-2025
Toward the NLS Congress “Painful Loves”- May 17&18, 2025 Facilitated by
Sep 14- Lacan’s Sem I, Ch. XXI – The three passions: Love, hate, ignorance Carlos Rivas
Sep 28 – Lacan’s Sem IV, Ch. 2 – Three forms of the lack of object Ines Anderson, NLS, NEL
Oct 12- Clinical Activity – One Cases Presentation by Sanem Guvenc Karina Tenenbaum, NLS,
Lacanian Compass
Oct 19 – Cartel Activity regarding Miller’s ‘Analysis Laid Bare’ 6 am – 8:30 am Neus Carbonell, London
Society of NLS
Section 1. Lack, Disappointment and Sadness, NLS Congress Theme by Patricia Bosquin-Caroz
Nov 9 – Lacan’s Sem VIII- Transference, Ch 2 – Set and Characters Patricia Gaviria
Nov 23 – Lacan’s Sem VIII, Ch 3 – The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus Peichi Su
Dec 7 – Overview of the theme of the NLS Congress Painful Loves Ruzanna Hakobyan, NLS
Dec 14 – Lacan’s Sem VIII, Ch 6 – Deriding the sphere: Aristophanes Federica Chacon
2025
Jan 11 – Freud’s contribution to the psychology of love – I & II Carlos Rivas
Section 2. Loves and Discourse, NLS Congress Theme by Patricia Bosquin-Caroz
Jan 18- Questions of the School NLS Activity
Jan 25- Lacan’s Sem XX, Ch. VI – God and Woman’s Jouissance Peichi Su
Feb 8 – Lacan’s Sem XX, Ch. VII – A Love Letter Sanem Guvenc
Feb 15 – Lacan’s Sem VII, Ch XIV – Love of one’s neighbour Audrey Noguera
Feb 22 – Clinical Activity – Case Presentation by Federica Chacon Peggy Papada, NLS, LS
Section 3. A Matter of Structure, NLS Congress Theme by Patricia Bosquin-Caroz
Mar 8 – Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis if the Ego, Ch. VIII –
Being in Love and Hypnosis
Federica Chacon
Mar 15 – “Invent a love beyond Tinder” Jorge Assef, EOL, NLS
Mar 22 – Lacan’s Sem X, Ch. XIII – Aphorisms on Love Patricia Gaviria
Apr 12 – Miller’s Section 1 – Analysis Laid Bare Ines Anderson, NLS, NEL
Apr 26 – “The Construction of a Case” Karina Tenenbaum, NLS,
Lacanian Compass
May 17-18 – NLS Congress “Painful Loves” in Paris
May 24 – NLS Congress Debrief Those who attended
June-July
2025
Loves in the Clinic Facilitated by
Jun 14 – “Love, Desire, and Death” Marcelo Veras, EBP
Jun 28 – CINEFORUM: “Closer” Carlos Rivas
Jul 5 -“Unknown love” Bogdan Wolf, NLS
Jul 26 – “No sexual relationship” toward WAP Congress 2026 Ines Anderson
Texts cited on the Theme of the Congress “Painful Loves” by Patricia Bosquin-Caroz
Section Lack, Disappointment and Sadness
-Lacan J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII, Transference p 34, 40, 89, 93
-Lacan J., Le Séminaire , livre XIV , La logique du fantasme , ed. J.-A. Miller, Paris, Seuil, p157, 144, 157,
-Lacan J., Television, A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, tr. D. Hollier, R. Krauss, A. Michelson, New
York/London, W. W. Norton & Co., 1990, p. 22.
Section Loves and Discourse
-Lacan J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and
Knowledge, 1972-1973, ed. J.-A. Miller, tr. B. Fink, New York/London, W. W. Norton & Co., 1999, p. 86.
-Lacan J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, ed. J.-A. Miller, tr. D. Porter, New
York/London, Routledge, 2008, p. 187.
Section A Matter of Structure
-Freud S., “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego”, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological
Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. XVIII (1920-1922), London, Vintage, 2001.
-Lacan J., The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore, op. cit., p. 144.
19 Ibid., p. 145
-Cf. Miller, J.-A., Analysis Laid Bare, WAP Libretto Series,
-For information and registration, please contact Carlos Rivas psicogestalt@gmail.com or Ines Anderson inesldea@hotmail.com, or visithttps://www.facebook.com/InitiativeToronto/