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Psycho-analysis, Pakistan
A Rally Point for Psychoanalysis
سائکواینالسیز: ابتدائی مرحلہ
Upcoming Events
Multiple Dates6 days to the eventOct 14, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. GMT+5ZoomReading Seminar with Azeen Khan, PhD
9 days to the eventOct 17, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Zoom (RSVP for link)You can know about the Pakistan Psychoanalytic Society. Join us for a presentation on the “Question of the Society” from the President of the Pakistan Psychoanalytic Society. This event is open to all.
Date and time is TBDZoomThe reading seminar for this year has been announced on Lacan’s “Logic of Fantasy.” This will occur from September 2026 until April 2027, the first sunday of each month beginning August 16th, 7-8pm. Organized by our Reading Seminar Coordinators. To register: moonisazad@hotmail.com
Date and time is TBDLocation is TBDTo join the large reading cartel, please check in with the WhatsApp group (link on website, above)
Date and time is TBDPakistan Psychoanalytic CircleA Three-Part Seminar. Details forthcoming, 2026
Jul 11, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.https://calendar.app.google/GRxDqscfePo5Pb2An open discussion of the 2026 New Lacanian School Congress on "Varity." There may be some prepared remarks from members of the Pakistan Psychoanalytic Society. Please RSVP here: https://calendar.app.google/GRxDqscfePo5Pb2U8
Oct 18, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. GMT+5Pakistan Psychoanalytic SocietyAn Introductory Seminar on Clinical Psychoanalysis in the Lacanian Orientation with Roger Litten (A.P., Member of the London Society of the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis). Details coming soon (October 2025).
Sep 21, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. GMT+5Through the circle's WhatsApp groupOur third session of collective reading and discussion of the argument for the next New Lacanian School Congress: "Varity: Variations of Truth in Psychoanalysis."
Sep 06, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. GMT+5Pakistan Psychoanalytic Circle (Zoom Link)
Aug 30, 2025, 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. GMT+5Karachi, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, PakistanAn evening of questions posed to Frank Rollier (A.M.E) on "Cartels."
Jul 12, 2025, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. GMT+5Karachi, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, PakistanA video lecture (pre-recorded) followed by internal discussion. Jacques-Alain Miller speaks to psychoanalytic pioneers in Russia. What lessons can we extract in Pakistan?- Apr 12, 2025, 9:30 a.m. GMT+5 – Apr 14, 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT+5Karachi, National Stadium Rd, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, PakistanThe Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Aga Khan University, Karachi (Pakistan), and the Psychology Department at the University of Exeter, (United Kingdom), are jointly organising a conference to explore the opportunities and challenges of a psychoanalytic thinking space in Pakistan.
"As I now come to think of it, psychoanalysis is not transmissible. This is very irritating. It is very irritating that each psychoanalyst is forced – since he must be forced – to reinvent psychoanalysis"
-Jacques Lacan, 1978
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