• Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 Schedule

    Fall 2022 / Seminar XVIII (1971) by Jacques Lacan On a Discourse that might not be a semblance Translated by Cormac Gallagher 1971 The English translation of Seminar XVIII: Here The French version of Seminar XVIII: Here SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS 2022/2023 September 13 ONLINE session Seminar 1 – Jan. 13, 1971 (pgs. 2-17)  Facilitator:  Clint Burnham September 27   Seminar 2 – Jan. 20, 1971 (pgs. 18-35)  Facilitator:  Alessandra Capperdoni October 11…

  • LaConference 2011

    Lacan Salon, Vancouver, British Columbia Saturday, March 19, 2011 The Western Front 303 East 8th Avenue Organizing committee: Clint Burnham, Hilda Fernandez, Nancy Gillespie, Paul Kingsbury, Jesse Proudfoot and members of the Vancouver Lacan Salon 9:00 a.m. – 9:45: on site registration 9:45: Opening remarks: Hilda Fernandez, Lacan Salon 10:00 – 11:15: Session I, Clinical Alejandro Cerda The time given: A return to Freudian metapsychology Hilda Fernandez Some Reflections On Paranoia In Aronofsky’s  Black Swan Evan C. Strauss Examining Dhrupad: Symbolism,…

  • LaConference 2015: A Century on the Drive

    Lacan Salon, Vancouver, BC, May 15-17/2015 Call for Papers: A century ago, in 1915, Sigmund Freud wrote three fundamental works on metapsychology: Drives and Their Fates/Vicissitudes, Repression, and The Unconscious. These texts revised and solidified the theoretical foundations he had been working on since his Project for Psychology (1895). In his essay on the drives, Freud famously located the drives, “on the borderline between the mental and the physical – the psychic representative of stimuli flowing…