Espace Analytique Ireland- Psychoanalytic Training and Freudian Research

The Irish association, Espace Analytique–Ireland (linked to Espace Analytique in Paris)  was founded in 2019 and its aim is to provide space for the formation of psychoanalysts in Ireland by providing essential supervision, organising regular seminars and reading groups together with the most important part of psychoanalytic training and development, one’s own analysis. The psychoanalysts in Espace Analytique are engaged in permanent formation, or training, taking part in reading groups, seminars, study groups, discussions, internships and exchanges. The idea of permanent training and development (known as formation in French) derives from the teaching of Lacan.

Besides this, our association aims to popularise psychoanalytic clinical and theoretical practice among other specialists like psychiatrists, doctors, social workers, theoreticians, artists or anyone else who may be interested. Introducing the ideas of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and other psychoanalysts like Françoise Dolto, Maud and Octave Manonni, Donald Winnicott and Melanie Klein, can help professionals to respond better to the subject’s suffering in their work with children, adolescents and adults, whether they are in the institution or the consulting room. Indeed, introducing psychoanalytic theory and practice beyond the walls of the private consulting room would mean not only engaging with practitioners who work in different institutions in Ireland and abroad, but also with those engaged with the practice of theory in the fields of art, philosophy, anthropology, classics, literature, and linguistics.