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International
Institute of
Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalytic formation:
Foundations for a contemporary psychoanalysis

100% ONLINE

From September 2026 to August 2027

The IIP’s formation program is a vibrant and inventive space for the transmission of psychoanalysis. Our approach is rooted in the teachings of Freud and Lacan, and incorporates more contemporary and critical perspectives as well. 

We promote a collective space for theoretical formulation and dialogue between different lines of thought, with the aim of ensuring broader accessibility for groups historically excluded from the psychoanalytic field and inscribing our work within the transformations derived from situated knowledge and counter-hegemonic epistemologies. At the same time, we offer an expansion of the set of tools we can use to renew our practices and meet the demands of the contemporary world.

PROFESSORS

Benoît Le Bouteiller

France/Brazil

Ceren Korulsan

Turkey

Dany Nobus*

United Kingdom

Fabrice Bourlez

France/Belgium

Gabriel Tupinambá

Brazil

Hugo Valente

Brazil

Jaque Conceição

Brazil

Jed Wilson

USA

Jalil Bennani*

Morocco

Judith Butler*

USA

Laurie Laufer*

France

Marta Marciano

Brazil

Mônica Godoy

Brazil

Nicolas Tajan

Japan/France

Tatiana Gomes

Brazil

Tales Travassos

Brazil

*to be confirmed

DISCOVER the psychoanalytic formation:

Foundations for a contemporary psychoanalysis

The IIP formation takes place in a singular and dynamic environment for the transmission of psychoanalysis. Intended both for those beginning their formation process and for those who have sustained it over time, it offers a space for deepening study and ongoing discussion. The program is also open to those from other disciplines who seek deeper engagement with psychoanalytic thought, fostering a rigorous dialogue across diverse fields of study.

Our program includes the study of fundamental concepts and texts, as well as the discussion of contemporary issues and accounts of clinical experience—essential coordinates for those initiating a path of formation in psychoanalysis. This exchange supports the development of new theoretical elaborations and the refinement of the clinical approach to contemporary forms of suffering and modes of subjectivity.

International psychoanalytic formation

At IIP, we offer studies and readings conducted by 16 professors of different nationalities, backgrounds, and trajectories. Our objective is to provide comprehensive and rigorous psychoanalytic formation, as well as to foster editorial, social, and research activities. We also promote theoretical intersections with other fields of knowledge: humanities, social sciences, exact sciences, and the arts.

ABOUT THE FORMATION

Faculty

Professors from different nationalities, background and academic formation

Live and Recorded Classes

Classes with simultaneous translation into English, French, Portuguese and Libras (Brazilian sign language – upon request)

Duration

One year of formation beginning in September 2026, classes on Fridays and Saturdays

Access to the Recordings

Classes remain available through the My IIP platform during the whole formation.

ABOUT THE IIP

The International Institute of Psychoanalysis offers innovative and pluralistic formation that reaches beyond geographical borders and institutional affiliations. We aim to cultivate an open dialogue with professionals from diverse trajectories while preserving the independence that helps orient our way of working and our ethical position.

TESTIMONIES

Aram AyazKurdistan / Canada - Student of the 25/26 formation
My experience at the IIP has been deeply enriching both intellectually and personally. The teachers come from different backgrounds and theoretical perspectives, which created a rich and stimulating learning environment. What touched me most was the kindness, gentleness, and genuine support of the team. Beyond theory, I learned an ethical and humane way of practicing psychoanalysis.
Kilian BraungartGermany / France - Student of the 25/26 formation
It was one of my best decisions to apply for the IIP’s foundations program. What the IIP offers here is exactly what I was looking for. This program provides a space to learn from psychoanalysts and thinkers who approach psychoanalytic theory through a contemporary lens and warmly motivate you to do the same. I learned to examine theory with an unbiased and critical mindset, which deepened my understanding of what makes psychoanalysis so relevant today – both in theory and in clinical practice.
Zaíra RochaBrazil - Student of the 22/24 IIP formation
Hi! My name is Zaíra, I’m a psychologist joining the IIP formation. I got to know the IIP through my supervisor who is also a professor at the Institute, and I was amazed by the inclusion politics, the quality of the professors and the themes approached during the formation. I’ve been in other schools and institutes and I can say it’s the place where I felt the most welcome and heard. I feel better prepared for clinical practice and I recommend it to people who, like me, are looking for a space with quality formation.
Chris NelsonUSA - Student of the 23/25 IIP formation
My formation with the IIP was a kind of (de)formation, whereby I was able to deconstruct and challenge psychoanalytic norms and Lacanian orthodoxies that had hindered my clinical practice. The IIP is a safe, open and intersectional community to find your own way and style in both the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. I highly recommend it.
Axelle TrincheroFrance - Student of the 22/24 IIP formation
When I entered the IIP I knew that the formation would be highly professional and with solid ethical values, but I couldn’t imagine its pertinence, its richness, and the joy that would cheer me up when listening to all the professors within their singularity, their humility, and their taste for psychoanalysis, communicating us their research and their passion, to sum up: their desire. I learn in every class, I also face difficulties (a formation that flies high), but in general I’m pleased to apprehend a decolonized psychoanalysis, to work, to inform myself, to learn and to unlearn, to relearn and to take the time to digest while discussing with my formation colleagues. The cultural abundance that emerges is a real source of inspiration. The IIP is a passionate encounter, like meeting a work of art, an artist, a poet, with so many curiosities to discover, to be astonished and marveled. One doesn’t leave the formation the same way they started, that’s for sure. It’s a real joy to be able to embrace the opening that this “IIPesque” adventure brings us, and thereby apprehend ourselves differently.
Kelly Keity SilvaBrazil - Student of the 22/24 IIP formation
Taking part in the IIP formation has introduced me to a new experience of psychoanalysis. Being among such diverse people and listening to voices that are also heterogeneous, talking about psychoanalysis from their unique trajectories makes me comfortable to also find the space to be diverse and to create my own path throughout psychoanalytic studies and practices. The classes and professors create an environment in which there’s space for emptiness and a bit of anxiety that accompanies those who propose to venture into the psychoanalytic (not) knowing, encouraging us but also welcoming us.
Carol SuarezBrazil/Canada - Student of the 23/25 formation
My experience in the IIP formation has been truly transformative. Coming from a Legal background, I found in psychoanalysis, especially in the in-depth study of Lacan, a new way to understand the complexity of the human being and their relationships. The IIP provided me with a rigorous and welcoming study environment, where I could delve into concepts that were once distant to me, but now prove to be essential for my practice and my life. With each class and each reading, I feel my worldview expanding and I am walking a path of deep and meaningful discoveries. I recommend the IIP formation to everyone seeking a serious and passionate immersion into the universe of psychoanalysis and who wish to experience changes as profound as the ones I am undergoing.

Leyla Soydnç - Türkiye - student of the 25/26 IIP formation

Manali Arora - India - student of the 23/25 IIP formation

ACCESSIBILITY

The IIP is attentive to accessibility and, since its foundation, has implemented initiatives to support the inclusion of individuals with diverse needs as part of its ongoing effort to broaden access to psychoanalytic transmission. Upon request, all of our events can be translated into Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). We also work to ensure the inclusion of people with visual impairments by providing audio description of our content.

HOW DO I COMPLETE MY PRE-REGISTRATION FOR THE PROGRAM?

1

Fill out the form by clicking the button below.

2

An interview will be scheduled with the IIP team.

3

Registration will be finalized after the interview.

INVESTMENT FOR THE FORMATION

US Dollars

12x
$ 170,00

Euros

12x
160,00 €

Reais

12x
R$ 890,00

Payment methods

PayPal (credit card, 6,5% fee)

International transfer (*For a payment in euros, fees of 27 € apply, **For a payment in US dollars, fees of 30 US$ apply)

See our discount conditions

Full payment: 20% discount

Payment into 2 installments (each semester): 15% discount

Payment into 4 installments (each trimester): 10% de discount

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE Formation?

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Psychoanalytic formation: Foundations for a contemporary psychoanalysis

FUNDAMENTAL ITINERARY

1 - History of psychoanalysis

12h of recorded classes + 12h of live discussion

What could be a renewed historical reading of psychoanalysis through its institutional movements, the evolution of its theoretical framework, its conceptual apparatus, its practice, its presence in the city?

We will try to answer this question in this new course based on a bet: we must think about and question the history of psychoanalysis so that it does not close itself off in its past and its dogmas.

Professor: Fabrice Bourlez (France/Belgium)

2 - Fundamental concepts

12h of live classes

More information coming soon
Professor: Mônica Godoy (Brazil)

3 - The opening of Lacan's twenty first seminars

40h of recorded classes + 15h of live discussion

For several decades Jacques Lacan will provide a teaching especially during his Seminar. He will say repeatedly: he does not seek to transmit a knowledge. His seminar is a space for a psychoanalyst to say, in the position of an analysand.

Lacan closes his text “Psychoanalysis and its teaching” with the following words: “A return to Freud, which provides the material for a teaching worthy of the name, can only be produced by the pathway by which the most hidden truth manifests itself in the revolutions of culture. This pathway is the only training that I can claim to transmit to those who follow me. It is called: a style.”

Teaching: insignis in Latin; what is marked with a sign.

What sign and what style is this Seminar about?

To explore these questions, we propose to study rigorously during this year, each month, the first sentence(s) of a seminar. We will start with the first and continue like this, chronologically until the 20th. This proposal will certainly be the opportunity to trace a possible path within this teaching.

Professor: Benoît Le Bouteiller (France/Brazil)

4 - Construction of clinical case

12h of live classes

The construction of clinical case is a practice that is at the very heart of the history of Freudian discovery. This course is therefore part of this long tradition inseparable from the ethics of psychoanalysis. In this course, each month, one of the professors of the IIP will present in a narrow way a clinical situation resulting from his own analytic practice. It will be for him/her to show and demonstrate the possible construction of the case and extract from it his/hers own invention, between the structure and the singularity. Ample space will be reserved for discussion and debate following this clinical presentation.

Professors: Jed Wilson (USA), Ceren Korulsan (Türkiye)

TRANSVERSAL ITINERARY

1 - Freud, from his texts

10h30m of live classes

Sigmund Freud is primarily a doctor and researcher specialized in brain anatomy and the nervous system. It is through articles that he will give to hear, from this starting point, the path he draws and which leads to the invention of psychoanalysis. This course offers an immersion in a part of this Freudian adventure. Professors will each seize an article by Freud and will visit it, question it, extract the guidelines, say how this text feeds the clinic, a research in the process of being done, but also say the limits, the errors that mark out, perhaps, the Freudian text.

Professors: Ceren Korulsan (Türkiye)  and others to be confirmed

2 - Artists, scientists, and philosophers in dialogue with psychoanalysts

4h30m of live classes

More information coming soon
Professors to be confirmed

3 - The practice of the psychoanalyst

5h of live classes

This course invites, in each session, a psychoanalyst to speak concretely about their work — conducting the cure, handling transference, timing, difficult moments — in dialogue with a group of students who have prepared questions. The aim is not to produce a unified doctrine, but to allow different styles to emerge, so that everyone can grasp, in a lively way, what an ethics of psychoanalysis as a practice truly means.

Professors: Mônica Godoy (Brazil),  Jed Wilson (USA)

4 - Psychoanalysis and the contemporary world

16h30m of live and recorded classes

4.1  Introduction to topology

4h30m of live classes

A mathematician will, over three sessions, open a gateway into the world of topology that Lacan employs in his later teachings. The goal is not to train mathematicians, but to develop a topological intuition that makes reading the late seminars more accessible and fruitful. No prerequisites are required; the course is dialogical and open to anyone wishing to engage with these theoretical and clinical developments.

Professor: Lukas Baugher

4.2 Class about autism

3h of live classes

More information coming soon
Professors to be confirmed

4.3 Psychoanalysis and situated knowledges: plural epistemologies

3h of live classes

Decentering Psychoanalysis -  Professor to be confirmed

Jalil Bennani proposes a critique of Eurocentrism and colonial psychiatry, as Frantz Fanon did. In order not to be imported, psychoanalysis must be (re)appropriated and thus, should rely on a local geographical, political, cultural, and linguistic context. These are the best possible conditions for a true transmission, considering the future of psychoanalysis which needs to renew itself, reinvent itself, and this is only possible through other horizons.

Race, Gender, and Class - Professor to be confirmed

Would this mean making space for the voices silenced by the history of psychoanalytic institutions? Or is it rather about developing a critical perspective on certain attitudes and theories stemming from Freud’s discovery and its effects? Undoubtedly… We believe this necessary movement can emerge through a singular clinical, political, and theoretical practice.

In this course, three psychoanalysts from three different continents will each evoke, from distinct perspectives, a possible embodiment of this decolonization.

4.4 Post-human jouissances

3h of recorded classes + 1h30m of live discussion

More information coming soon
Professors to be confirmed

WELCOMING SPACE

1 - Time to listen

7h30m of live classes

A one and a half hour session at the end of each two months to collect questions and comments regarding the content of the courses and the formation in general. In this space the word will be listened to in the singularity of each one, as from the ethics of psychoanalysis. These bimonthly meetings are open to the contingency of requests from whoever wishes to do so.

Professor: Hugo Valente

2 - Presentation of the formation

1h of live classes

3 - Introductory course for group presentation

2h of live classes

Pre-register - Psychoanalytic formation: Foundations for a contemporary psychoanalysis 26/27

Agendamento - lp1 EN

Hello! We are very pleased with your interest in our Psychoanalytic formation: foundations for a contemporary psychoanalysis. The next cohort will begin in September 2026.

If this is your first time here, we invite you to schedule an online interview with a member of our team. During this meeting, we will talk about the structure of the IIP, our formation programs, and answer any additional questions.

This interview is free of charge and does not create any commitment to the IIP. It is a necessary step to align expectations before your registration in the formation program.

If no available time slots appear for you, or if the available times are not suitable, please contact us by email or WhatsApp so that we can find an alternative.

If you have already had an interview with us or have previously been part of the IIP, you do not need to schedule this meeting again. Simply send us an email or WhatsApp message so we can proceed with your registration, or simply click below on I already know the IIP.

 

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Schedule | 25/26 - Psychoanalytic formation: Foundations for a contemporary psychoanalysis

  • September 25

    19, 26, 27

  • October 25

    3, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31

  • November 25

    1, 7, 14, 21, 22, 28

  • December 25

    5, 6, 12, 19, 20

  • January 26

    9, 10, 16, 23, 30

  • February 26

    6, 7, 20, 27, 28

  • March 26

    6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 27

  • April 26

    10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25

  • May 26

    8, 9, 22, 23, 29, 30

  • June 26

    12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27

  • July 26

    Conclusion projects

  • August 26

    Conclusion projects

Please note that dates are subject to chang

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