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The [[cartel]] is the, basic working unit on which [[Lacan]] based his [[school]] of [[psychoanalysis]], the [[Ecole Freudienne de Psychanalyse]] (EFP).

Most Lacanian associations continue to organise work in [[cartel]]s today.

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'; 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 [[cartel]]s.

Although participation in cartels plays an important part in the [[training]] (''formation'') of Lacanian [[analyst]]s, membership of [[cartel]]s is not restricted to members of the [[school]].

Indeed, [[Lacan]] welcomed the exchange of ideas between [[analyst]]s and those from other disciplines, and saw the [[cartel]] as one structure which would serve to encourage this exchange.

By organising 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 Psychoanalytical Association]] (IPA).

* ''[[Ecole Freudienne de Psychanalyse]]''

* [[International Psychoanalytical Association]]

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