Psychoanalysis always already requires renewal again. Lacan retheorized the Freudian clinic through structural linguistics in the 1950s; he claimed that language and the symbolic order structure subjectivity, and that any clinic omitting this perspective was treating symptoms of a world it refused to see. Developments in language, technology, and the social field today demand Other perspectives. Technological acceleration (including LLM subjectivation), metastasis of ecosystem collapse (as Capitalocene unconscious), mass migration (as deterritorialized desire) and other emergent denormifications establish that neither the subject nor the other obtain as previously.
The Association for the Clinic of the Future seeks to transductively think through these intertangling entropies, not merely reacting to their casualties. The Real of psychoanalytic ethics, anchored to the human through Abgrund and Fortsein (Goneness), demands a fundamental reconceptualization of what the clinic is, what it addresses, and how it operates.
The Association for the Clinic of the Future is a research collective investigating how psychoanalytic practice and theory can evolve to address the unconscious of our time—not the unconscious of 1950s Paris or 1900s Vienna, but the unconscious glitching, tessellating and splattering right now.