Call for papers for the BLOG
VARITY
The Newsletter Varity has just revealed, one by one, the different sections of the blog, elaborated from the thematic axes drawn from the presentation of the Congress theme. By their quality, these presentations constitute veritable orientation texts. History, Myth and Fiction; Mistake, Lie and Evasion; Fake and Transparency, Knowledge: The True and the False ; Tearing of the Veil, Revelation, Emergence; Study: Truth, Speech and Saying.
You can read and reread them on the BLOG.
Now, it is time to move on to your Varity, which we invite you to write. It will be published on the blog and disseminated by the Newsletter, each week, throughout the Congress preparation.
This short text should be no more than 3000 characters, including spaces and notes. It may be based on a literary, theatrical or cinematographic work, or on the works of Freud, Lacan etc., and should resonate with one of the themes of the argument. It will be accompanied by a reflection teaching us about truth, its variations and its place in the analytic experience.
Your Varity may also comment on a bibliographical reference, address a topical social, political, cultural or scientific matter, or take up a presentation you have made in a teaching context. Each proposal will be read with the greatest interest.
⚠️ For reasons of confidentiality, clinical cases will not be accepted for electronic distribution ; they will be welcome, however, in the context of the clinical parallel sessions of the Congress.
Your name and email should be clearly displayed, along with an indication of the theme as well as the title you are proposing.
The guidelines for writing your Varity, as well as the conditions of its eligibility are available on the blog HERE : Contributions to the blog and to the parallel sessions are reserved for those working within the Societies, Groups and Initiatives of the NLS.
So, it’s time to put pen to paper, it will be a pleasure to read your contribution.
For the Blog team (1), Éric Zuliani, NLS Vice President
See the eligibility criteria
Send your contributions to Éric Zuliani and Christel Van den Eeden
Éric Zuliani: ericzuliani@orange.fr
Blog Secretariat: christel_vandeneeden@yahoo.com
(1) The Blog team
English edition under the responsibility of Joanne Conway
Linda Clarke, Jeff Erbe, Rik Loose, Liat Bergman, Raphael Montague, Keren Ben Hagai, Anna de Filippi, Kate Briggs
French edition under the responsibility of Eleni Koukouli
Clémentine Bénard, Violaine Clément, Claudia Gundacker, Cecilia Naranjo, Anna Pigkou, Dominique Rudaz, Paulina Tanterl, Danaé Toyas, Anne Weinstein, Cécile Wojnarowski
Call for Contributions
for the NLS Congress 2026
You can send us your clinical work, from today!
Deadline for submitting contributions: 10 April 2026
The selected clinical cases will be presented in person in Paris.
Parallel Clinical Sessions
The 24th NLS Congress will be held in Paris on 27 and 28 June. It will be held in person at the Salons de l’Aveyron. The parallel clinical sessions will take place on Saturday 27 June. The start time will be communicated at a later date, but they will end at 5pm.
They will be presented in the Salons de l’Aveyron in Paris, some in English, others in French, with no translation; plus a bilingual room with simultaneous translation. Each speaker and each congress participant chooses their language at the time of registration.
We invite you to contribute to the work on the theme Varity. You have probably already thought of a case from your practice that is particularly close to your heart. It could be the subject of a clinical presentation. This would be an opportunity to unfold its coordinates and to approach it through one of the clinical angles below, which we suggest to you in order to help you orient your presentation.
- Dialectic, certainty and fixation
- Belief and disbelief
- Fictions, myths and dreams
- Children’s Fictions
- What varies – what does not vary
- Fluctuations and rectification
- Tearing of the veil, modesty and half-saying
- Relaunching or stopping meaning
- Remembering, narration and hystorisation
- Deceptions, lies and evasions
- Stumbling, bungled acts
- Traumas and reconstructions
- Negation, disavowal, denial, misrecognition
- Revelation, emergence, insight
Your presentation will focus on a single clinical case. It will highlight a clinic under transference. It will allow the practitioner or analyst to appear in the picture and reveal the angle from which you apprehend the theme of Varity.
You may draw on a conceptual reference, or even a quote, but these should not overshadow the development of the case.
Your contribution will be read by the scientific committee (English or French speaking).
It can be sent from today onwards to the following address:
Do not wait until the deadline of 10 April 2026 to write your contribution. Now is the time !
In the following format:
- Maximum 6,500 characters, including spaces, written in Times New Roman font, size 12, line spacing 1.5.
- Before sending it, your text must be proofread by an English or French speaker and formatted strictly according to the above criteria.
- The author should propose a short title. Above the text, they should include their surname, first name, email address, telephone number, whether they belong to a Youth Space (if so, state your age) and the clinical angle chosen.
- The subject line of the email should be worded as follows: Parallel Sessions NLS 2026 + SURNAME and first name.
Please note: the call for contributions is reserved for members of the NLS and colleagues working within the framework of the NLS Societies, Groups, Initiatives and Youth Spaces, as well as associated clinical sections.
Patricia Bosquin-Caroz, for the Organising Committee of the Congress, with Éric Zuliani, Monique Kusnierek, Marina Frangiadaki, Peggy Papada, Frédérique Bouvet, Philip Dravers, Eleni Koukouli, Cecilia Naranjo, Thomas Van Rumst and Natalie Wülfing.
