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=Jacques Lacan====History=====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.

<blockquote>"Those who enter this School will undertake to fulfil a task that is [[subject ]] to both [[internal ]] and [[external ]] supervision. In [[exchange ]] they are assured that [[nothing ]] will be spared in [[order ]] that anything valuable they do gets the attention it deserves and in the appropriate [[place]]. To carry out this work we shall adopt the [[principle ]] of sustained elaboration in small groups.”</blockquote>

=====School=====The [[cartel]] is essentially a study group consisting of ''[[three]]'' to ''five'' [[people ]] (though [[Lacan]] considers ''four'' the optimum [[number]]), plus a supervisor (known as a "[[plus-one]]" (''[[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]].

=====Membership=====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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