A cartel is a fundamental organ of psychoanalytic work within the school of Jacques Lacan. There may be cartels without a school, but there is no school without cartels. 

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What does the cartel add to the experience and transmission of psychoanalysis in Pakistan? This rally of cartels shall put it to the test: a social bond that supports the singularity of each one’s question addressed to psychoanalysis, within a cartel oriented by a shared theme.

The production of written work for each one, not qualified by measurements or standards, but guided by a ‘plus one’ whose function is neither that of a schoolmaster nor a comrade.

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A few sentences is recommended, read slowly; or, at most, a few pages. The shorter, the better. Without powerpoint presentations: one reads one’s text to make an impact and not to educate, to expose one’s singular relation to knowledge.

 

To submit a proposal for work, please email the following information to Duane.Rousselle@aku.edu with the email subject: “Rally of Cartels 2026:”

1. Name/Theme of Cartel

2. ‘Plus One’ Name, Location, Email Address, Question of Work

3. Name, Location, and Email Address of each cartelsand, plus question of work

4. List “Presenting” “Not Presenting” of each cartelsand from the cartel who has agreed to present during the event.

 

Further details for the event to follow. For those interested in “cartel” work, please join our WhatsApp circle by visiting www.PsychoanalysisPakistan.com 

Venue: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

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Image: Sadequain in Paris. Untitled. (Meursault at the Window). 1966