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APRES-COUP PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK, NY · EIN 133787663 · Form 990EZ · FY2024 · NTEE F800 · Mental Health & Crisis Intervention · Micro (<$100K) · apres-coup.org
revenue
$60K
expenses
$44K
net assets
$194K
employees
—
mission · from form 990

TO CONDUCT SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES, TO STUDY AND DISEMINATE IDEAS REGARDING FREUDIAN AND LANCANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE PUBLISHING OF SCHOLARLY WORKS ON THOSE SUBJECTS.

profile · synthesized from sources

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association is a New York-based organization dedicated to advancing psychoanalytic thought through seminars, conferences, and publications focused on Freudian and Lacanian theory. It hosts reading groups and clinical discussions on topics such as psychosis, the unconscious, and the intersections of psychoanalysis with politics and culture. The organization promotes scholarly exchange among psychoanalysts and contributes to the international Lacanian community through its membership in Convergencia.

named programs · 3 · from sources

What they call their work

Clinical Discussion Groups
Forums for psychoanalysts to explore clinical work with children, psychosis, and institutional settings, encouraging case-based dialogue and theoretical reflection.
Convergencia Participation
Active involvement in the international Lacanian network Convergencia, including hosting colloquia and contributing to global discourse on Freudian analysis.
Reading Groups and Seminars
Regularly scheduled events on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, including focused discussions on clinical practice, theoretical concepts, and interdisciplinary topics such as literature, politics, and art.
activities · 5 groups

What they do

  • Professional Training and Certification in Mental Health 6 activities
    • Conducting psychoanalytic research on Freud, Lacan, and interdisciplinary themes
      Engages in focused research on the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, extending into philosophy, literature, art, and linguistics. Publishes scholarly analyses on topics such as crowds and collective behavior, the role of writing in psychoanalytic theory, and the intersections of psychoanalysis with science and culture.
    • Developing and maintaining bilingual psychoanalytic archives
      Creates and sustains bilingual (English-French, English-German) archives of key psychoanalytic texts, including Lacan’s works, 70% of Freud’s Standard Edition, and philosophical texts by Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger interpreted through a Lacanian lens. Commissions English translations of previously unavailable or obscurely published works.
    • Hosting interdisciplinary forums for psychoanalytic dialogue
      Maintains an interdisciplinary forum that fosters collaboration among psychoanalysts, students, and scholars from diverse fields to advance psychoanalysis and its engagement with culture, science, and philosophy.
    • Operating a Formation Program for psychoanalytic training
      Runs a structured Formation Program for Analysands-in-Formation that includes coursework, reading groups, cartels, control analyses, and clinical presentations. Participants must complete 48 points of academic and clinical work, undergo two control analyses with senior analysts, and present their clinical work to a Presenting Council. The program requires admission through a committee and includes faculty advising, appeals processes, and formal evaluation structures.
    • Organizing psychoanalytic seminars, colloquia, and conferences
      Conducts seminars, colloquia, and conferences on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, bringing together researchers, scholars, psychoanalysts, and specialists from other disciplines to discuss contemporary issues in psychoanalysis and culture. These include both recurring events and time-bound study groups on specific topics such as psychoses, transference, melancholia, and the symptom.
    • Providing continuing education for mental health professionals
      Offers continuing education credits (one per hour) to licensed mental health professionals who attend presentations and fulfill evaluation requirements, supporting professional development in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
  • Membership Program Administration 1 activity
    • Administering membership and participation fees
      Charges annual fees for participation and membership: $750 for registered participants, $800 for members, and $800 for individuals enrolled in the Formation Program, with options for full or installment payment.
  • Regular Membership Meetings 1 activity
    • Convening organizational assemblies and events
      Holds a General Assembly of Members and Analysands-in-Formation one to two times per year to review organizational activities and hosts an annual Presentations Event open to registered participants, members, and trainees.
  • Academic Journal and Scholarly Publication 1 activity
    • Publishing and disseminating psychoanalytic scholarship
      Produces and distributes scholarly publications on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, including books and essay collections. Maintains a library of psychoanalytic materials and offers e-books and print copies for purchase through dedicated ordering systems. Examples include the publication of "Then and Now" and bilingual editions of key texts.
  • Uncategorized 1 activity
    • Facilitating cartel-based collaborative learning
      Uses the cartel—a small collaborative study group—as the primary mode of participation in its organizational and educational work. Facilitates cartel formation by circulating proposed themes, supports members in producing individual written works, and publicly lists active cartels once titles and facilitators ("Plus-Ones") are established.
financials · form 990EZ · fy2024
revenue
Total revenue$60K
Contributions & grants$57K94%
Program service revenue——
Investment income$4K6%
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expenses
Total expenses$44K
Program expenses—
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balance sheet
Total assets$194K
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Net assets$194K
5 years on record · 2019–2024 · YoY revenue +52.3%
relationships · 32

Who they work with

  • A.L.I Association Lacanienne Internationale Network — International Lacanian association connected to the broader psychoanalytic network.
  • AF Admission Committee Partner — Admissions committee responsible for reviewing and accepting applications to the Analysand-in-Formation program.
  • Adriana Passini Partner — Participates as a 'Plus One' in the Transference and the End of Analysis cartel and serves as contact for cartel inquiries.
  • Agincourt Press Partner — Linked publishing organization related to psychoanalytic literature.
  • Associaçao Psicanalitica de Porto Alegre Partner — Brazilian psychoanalytic association linked as part of international network.
  • Board of Regents of the State of New York Government — Provisionally chartered the organization.
  • Board of Regents of the State of New York Government — Provisionally charters Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association
  • Convergencia Network — Member of Convergencia, the International Lacanian Movement for Freudian Analysis, participating in its collective activities and governance structures.
  • Convergencia - Movimiento lacaniano por el psicoanálisis freudiano Partner — Lacanian movement organization promoting Freudian psychoanalysis.
  • Convergencia Congress 2023 Partner — Event linked as part of international Lacanian psychoanalytic engagement.
  • Corpo Freudiano Partner — Brazilian Freudian psychoanalytic institution in Rio de Janeiro.
  • Darian Leader Partner — Participates as a 'Plus One' in the Diagnostic Edge of Psychoses cartel.
  • Ecole Freudienne de Paris Partner — Adopts the cartel as a working modality originally proposed by Lacan at the Ecole Freudienne de Paris.
  • Ecole de psychanalyse Sigmund Freud Partner — French psychoanalytic school linked as part of international network.
  • Ecole lacanienne de psychanalyse Partner — French Lacanian psychoanalytic institution.
  • Escuela Freudian de Buenos Aires Partner — Argentinian Freudian psychoanalytic school.
  • Espace analytique Partner — Psychoanalytic organization linked as part of international network.
  • Essaim revue de psychanalyse Partner — Psychoanalytic journal linked as part of scholarly network.
  • Formation Committee Partner — Committee responsible for reviewing and approving applications for membership.
  • Formation Committee Partner — Responsible for deciding the composition of the Presenting Council and overseeing the appeals process for the Formation Program.
  • Freud Partner — Engages with Freud's theories, particularly on group psychology, psychosis, and the unconscious, as foundational to its psychoanalytic work.
  • Lacan Partner — Draws extensively on Lacan’s concepts including the signifier, object a, the Borromean knot, and the logic of the pas-tout in its theoretical and clinical framework.
  • Le cercle freudien Partner — Freudian psychoanalytic organization.
  • L’instance lacanienne Partner — Lacanian psychoanalytic institution.
  • Mark Stafford Partner — Participates as a 'Plus One' in the Figures of Melancholia cartel.
  • Martin Winn Partner — Contact person for membership and Formation Program inquiries
  • Martin Winn Partner — Participates as a 'Plus One' in The Symptom and Its Centrality to the Formation of the Analyst cartel.
  • Mayéutica Institucion Psicoanalitica Partner — Argentinian psychoanalytic institution.
  • New York State Education Department Government — Recognizes the organization as an approved provider of continuing education for multiple licensed mental health professions.
  • Paola Mieli Partner — Contact person for membership and Formation Program inquiries
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strategies · 4

How they approach the work

Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.

  • Cartel-Based Collaborative Inquiry
    methodology: cartel_model
    By organizing focused study groups called 'cartels', the association fosters individual research trajectories and subjective responsibility in knowledge production, because the structure disrupts conventional group identifications and promotes singular engagement with psychoanalytic theory.
  • Interdisciplinary and Decentralized Knowledge Exchange
    methodology: interdisciplinary-international-dialogue
    By convening interdisciplinary, international dialogues and maintaining a decentralized network of member associations, the association enhances psychoanalytic discourse, because it treats institutional multiplicity and cross-disciplinary connections as generative of theoretical innovation rather than obstacles to unity.
  • Psychoanalytic Knowledge Dissemination Through Translation and Publication
    methodology: scholarly_dissemination
    By publishing and translating Freudian and Lacanian texts—especially obscure or previously unavailable works—the association advances access to psychoanalytic scholarship, because bilingual and widely distributed materials enable broader engagement with core theoretical resources across linguistic and cultural contexts.
  • Subjectivity as Foundational in Clinical and Research Formation
    methodology: subjective_transformation
    By framing psychoanalytic training as "formation" rather than "training", the association produces ethical subjectivity and clinical transformation, because it emphasizes a fundamental reconfiguration of the self in relation to knowledge and practice, rooted in Lacanian and Freudian understandings of symptoms and subjective solutions.