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Board of Directors
Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez (President) is a Vancouver-based Lacanian psychoanalyst with over 30 years of clinical experience in public and private settings in both Mexico and Canada. Her doctoral research analyzes trauma and healing discourses in public mental health institutions. A co-founder of the Lacan Salon in 2007, she continues to serve as its president and has led clinical seminars since 2015. She is also an associate of Simon Fraser University’s Institute for…
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Vulnerable Pleasures, a satellite art exhibition at LaConference 2025
Exhibition Hours: Friday October 17, 3 – 10pm Saturday October 18, 12 – 6pm With a special presentation by Carol Owens, Friday October 17 at 8:30pm In parallel with the LaConference on Feminine Desire, 12 clinical psychoanalysts were each given one artwork to analyze without knowing who the artist was. Their written responses are the basis of the exhibition, Vulnerable Pleasures. Drawing on Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti’s insistence that risk, tenderness, and vulnerability are…
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LaConference 2025 Registration / Program
Register here. LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of two remarkable and prolific psychoanalytic thinkers who left us too early: Anne Dufourmantelle (1964 – 2017) and Mari Ruti (1964 – 2023). LaConference: Feminine Desire Day 1 – Friday, October 17 8:30 – 9:00 AM Registration & Morning Coffee 9:00 – 9:10 AM Welcome: Hilda Fernandez 9:10 – 9:30 AM Land Acknowledgement, Opening Remarks: Wayne Wapeemukwa 9:30 – 11:00 AM Panel 1:…
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Corpo Freudiano Vancouver Fundraiser
Our silent auction with a range variety of items, from books, dance lessons to a staycation possibility in Vancouver. To bid in the SILENT AUCTION, please click here. Auction closes on October 18 at 12 pm.
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LaConference 2025: Call for Papers (closed)
Feminine Desire: Honoring the Life and Work of Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti Keynote Speakers: Carol Owens, Noëlle McAfee and Ana Hounie Call for Papers (CLOSED) The LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of two remarkable and prolific psychoanalytic thinkers who left us too early: Anne Dufourmantelle (1964 – 2017) and Mari Ruti (1964 – 2023). Duformantelle and Ruti marked our zeitgeist with intellectual and emotional rigor, courageously posing…
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Spearker Series with Leticia Cantú Alvarado
DECOLONIZING: On a Verb, its Grammar and Episteme When: June 07th, 2025 10 AM (PST) / 11 AM (CDMX) Where: Online Zoom. Free event. Register here. Those who come to the consultation rooms where psychoanalysis is practiced are not exempt from material realities and contemporary political and social issues. As analysts, we listen to the singular, to that which cannot deny the mark of this contemporaneity, undoubtedly political, and which configures…
