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The [[cartel]] is the basic working unit on which [[Lacan]] based his [[school]] of [[psychoanalysis]], the ''[[École Freudienne de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[EFP]]), and most [[Lacan]]ian associations continue to organize work in [[cartels]] today.
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The [[cartel]] is essentially a study group consisting of three to five people (though [[Lacan]] cosniders four the optimum number), plus a supervisor (known as a '[[plus-one]]'; [[Fr]]. ''[[plus-un]]'') who moderates the group's work.
A [[cartel]] is created when a group of people decide to work together on a particular aspect of [[psychoanalytic theory]] which is of interest to them, and it is then registered in the [[school]]'s list of [[cartels]].
Although participation in [[cartels]] plays an important part in the [[training]] (''[[formation]]'') of [[Lacan]]ian [[analysts]], membership of [[cartels]] is not restricted to members of the [[school]].
Indeed, [[Lacan]] welcomed the exchange of ideas between [[analysts]] and those from other disciplines, and saw the [[cartel]] as one [[structure]] which would serve to encourage this exchange.
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By organizing research work around a small-scale unit like the [[cartel]], [[Lacan]] hoped to avoid the effects of massification which he regarded as partly to blame for the sterility of the [[International Psyhco-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]).
==See Also==
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* ''[[École Freudienne de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[EFP]])
* [[International Psyhco-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]])
* [[School]]
* [[Training]]
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