2001 International Symposium on Psychoanalytic Research

This brief report is intended as a record of a quite unusual psychoanalytic meeting, which took place recently in a country that has had very little exposure to the discipline. Curiously, and I think unintentionally, it appears to have been the event which coincided most closely with Jacques Lacan's centenary which th occurred on the day before it began, on Friday the 13th. But this was by no means an explicitly Lacanian meeting and a variety of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic tendencies were represented, especially on the Chinese side but on the Western side also.…