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Interrogating the Nature of Contemporary Social Bonds with the Psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan
A lecture and two seminars by Dr. Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes (Psychoanalyst and Founding director of 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico) December 5, 2012 7-9 pm SFU Harbour Centre. Room 7000 Lecture: “Towards a Lacanian Analytic of Contemporary Social Bonds” On the basis of a reappraisal of Jacques Lacan’s doctrine of the Four discourses, as developed in Seminar XVII, this lecture proposes to interrogate the nature of contemporary social bonds in the wake of…
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Love and Jouissance: Conversation with Lacan on Feminine Sexuality
Psychoanalysis reveals the unconscious sexuated in nature. Tied to the ontological question of how to be a woman or a man, the unconscious fails to fully represent an answer to such question. Comparing feminine to masculine sexuality, Freud asserted that “the sexual life of adult women is a ‘dark continent”[1] and he confessed that the question “that I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into…
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LaConference2013
“Sixty Years After Lacan: On the Symbolic Order in the Twenty-First Century” Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Verhaeghe Location: GoldCorpo Centre for the Arts (149 West Hastings) Date: Saturday June 1, 2013 9am-5pm / Sundy June 2, 2013 11am-2pm
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Cartel: Covid-19
We are being traversed by a true event whose consequences are yet undetermined. This situation has moved us to articulate, from a psychoanalytic point of view, something of this historical event while the phenomenon continues unfolding. Members Alessandra Capperdoni Juan Luis de la Mora Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez Plus-One Francine Danniau If you want more information on the current cartels, please click here.
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Clinical Seminar IV: “What Makes a Psychoanalyst?”
Registration is now closed. 7 sessions from March 18, 2023 – June 17, 2023 Fortnight Saturdays 10:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m. SFU Harbour Centre. Hybrid format. In this seminar, we will read central texts by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan that pertain to the question of what makes a psychoanalyst and what inheres a psychoanalytic practice. We also will read contemporary texts to explore, within our present circumstances, what are the…
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Clinical Seminar II: “Approaching the Symbolic, Real and Imaginary in Clinical Practices”
To sustain a clinical practice, analysts and psychotherapists rely on a theoretical framework that defines their assumptions about human nature. Such theory informs the logic that guides their interventions and therefore impacts the results of such treatment. From a Lacanian perspective, human subjectivity is understood through three registers: the Symbolic, the Real and the Imaginary. Roughly speaking, within the Symbolic realm we locate language, culture, discourse and desire. The register of the Real brings about…
