“On Shame”: A Seminar with Sharon R. Green*, Ph.D.

When: June 23rd, 2026 from 6PM to 9PM (Vancouver, BC)

Where: SFU Woodwards/Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Room 2205 (Hybrid event)

Please register HERE.

Free Event for Corpo Freudiano members.

When we feel that we’ve been exposed to the gaze of another as vulnerable, lacking, unlovable or unworthy, the experience of shame is profoundly painful. However, the perspective that Sharon Green proposes in this seminar is that it is through bearing shame – rather than defensively fending it off – that subjective transformation can occur.

In this seminar, Sharon will discuss a Lacanian perspective on shame, including the structure of shame and how to work with the dynamics of shame in clinical practice.

*Sharon R. Green has had a private practice of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and clinical consultation in Seattle, USA, for over 25 years. Sharon’s psychoanalytic practice is informed by her engagement with the arts including photography, filmmaking and dance as well as her life experiences working with individuals with severe mental illness, chronic and life-threatening medical conditions, the frail elderly and persons with HIV/AIDS. Sharon received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Department of Lacanian Psychoanalysis at Ghent University, Belgium.

Image: Haupt der Medusa by Franz von Stuck (circa 1892)