The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) was launched at the initiative of Jacques-Alain Miller in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1992. It was declared in Paris, four days later, on 7 January.^[1] Its statutes^[2] are modelled on Jacques Lacan's "Founding Act"^[3] and adopt the principles outlined in his "Proposition" on the Pass.^[4]

The World Association of Psychoanalysis groups together the École de la Cause freudienne (France); the Escuela de la Orientación Lacaniana (Argentina); the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis del Campo Freudiano (Spain); the Scuola lacaniana di psicoanalisi (Italy); the European Federation of the Schools of the WAP; the Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise (Brazil); the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (Latin America); and the New Lacanian School.

With over 2,000 members worldwide, the WAP stands as the largest institutional structure dedicated to the training of psychoanalysts in the Lacanian orientation.

• Jacques-Alain Miller (1992–2002)
• Graciela Brodsky (2002–2006)
• Éric Laurent (2006–2010)
• Leonardo Gorostiza (2010–2014)
• Miquel Bassols (2014–2018)

In 1994 and 1996, the members of the WAP met in "assemblies". Since 1998, the international meetings have taken the form of congresses.

Preparatory texts for the congresses are published in Scilicet.