For the IIP, it is essential to allow psychoanalysis to be a living practice and the exercise of research is an essential path for this movement. In fact, research is part of the genesis of psychoanalysis, since Freud himself considered clinical practice as research. The institute thus understands research as a practical and ethical requirement of the psychoanalyst and promotes it in a strict and inventive way. The IIP’s activities are essentially organized in the form of Cartels and Research laboratories.

Cartels
The cartel is a research space in psychoanalysis engendered in an analytic community, proposed by Lacan as one of the elements that composes the School and its principles. The work starts from restlessness, a not knowing that torments and produces a question. Investigating such a question is a way of endorsing the commitment of cartelisands within their own elaborations.

Research Laboratories
With a focus on reflection and intellectual production in magazines, books, congresses and conferences, the Research Groups are formed by psychoanalysis scholars, whether they are clinicians, academics, artists or other interested parties. They meet around a common issue and, annually, produce an annual report of activities, in addition to the design of the following lines of research.