No. 1 (2000): The passe: a Brazilian experience

Becoming a psychoanalyst is not a professional choice, but rather a turning point or transition that occurs within an analytical process—a shift that can be verified through an institutional mechanism Lacan termed the "pass" (*passe*). Sharing its name with the very moment of transition that marks the end of an analysis, the "pass" seeks to address the recurring question, "What is an analyst?" It places at the heart of the School the verification of the emergence of a specific function and a unique desire—the "desire of the analyst"—in which the private sphere erupts into the public realm through the production of singular knowledge regarding one’s own analysis.

In this inaugural first volume of the journal *Stylus* (April 2000), themed "The Pass: A Brazilian Experience," the publication brings together the work of the Critical Commission on the Pass, as well as discussions held at the National Forum of the Lacanian Field in Belo Horizonte. This edition critically examines the deviations and the political and institutional effects resulting from the so-called "pass at the entry to the School"—implemented before the conclusion of the transference—while questioning the conditions under which the pass takes place and the possibility of the "desire of the analyst" emerging prior to the end of an analysis. By featuring sections dedicated to transference, the "pass cartel," the "passer" (*passador*), and clinical practice, this issue presents—openly and for the first time—testimonies regarding the experience of the pass, while also disseminating the guidelines and statutes of the newly founded Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field (AFCL).

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Table of Contents

Introduction
5 – Antonio Quinet

Editorial
7 – Edméia Nogueira Toledo and Rosana Baccarini

The Pass and Transference
11 – Antonio Quinet: The Analyst’s Desire and the End of Transference
21 – Marie-Jean Sauret: Transference After the Pass

The Pass – A Brazilian Transference
The Pass Cartel, the Pass-Witness, and the School-Clinic of the Pass
33 – Graça Pamplona: Regarding the Expression "Pass Under Transference"
37 – Roseli Maria Rodella de Oliveira: Pass Under Transference

Roundtable of the National Forum of the Lacanian Field
45 – Jairo Gerbase: Lessons from the Pass Cartel
49 – Antonio Quinet: The Pass Cartel at the EBP
53 – Nilda Deiró: The Pass Is the Pass-Witness
57 – Marie-Jean Sauret: The School as a Political Game of the Pass
61 – Debate – National Forum of the Lacanian Field – 1999

Clinic of the Pass I
69 – Rainer Melo: Pass Under Transference – "Queen of the Conga"
77 – Maria Anita Carneiro Ribeiro: The Pass in the WAP (World Association of Psychoanalysis)
83 – Nilda Deiró: From Love for the Father to the Love of Transference
87 – Maria Anita Carneiro Ribeiro: The Analyst’s Mark

Clinic of the Pass II
Roundtable of the National Forum of the Lacanian Field – 1999
91 – Sônia Campos Magalhães: The Pass to the Analyst’s Desire
97 – Graciela Bessa: Blindfolded
103 – Elizabeth Rocha Miranda: The Experience of the Pass at the EBP
109 – Dominique Fingermann: A Flawed Device
117 – Debate – National Forum of the Lacanian Field – BH (Belo Horizonte)

Association of Forums of the Lacanian Field
133 – Sonia Alberti: Association of Lacanian Field Forums (AFCL)
135 – Clarice Gatto: The Relevance of the *Cartel* in the AFCL Today
139 – Statutes
147 – Seminars

Programs and Projects of the Belo Horizonte City Government
155 – Rosana Baccarini: Introduction

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