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LaConference 2018: Lacan and the Environment
April 6-7, 2018 Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia Call for Papers LaConference is a conference series organized by the Lacan Salon of Vancouver, Canada. Previous iterations include LaConference 2011 (with keynote speaker Dany Nobus) at the Western Front, LaConference 2013 (on “the Symbolic Order in the Twenty-First Century” with keynote speaker Paul Verhaeghe) at the Simon Fraser University-Woodwards campus, LaConference 2015 (on “A Century on the Drive”) at SFU Woodwards, and…
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Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups Fourteenth Annual Conference
In partnership with the Lacan Salon APW 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS: ON LOVE: Vancouver, BC, 30 July – 1 August 2016 Love calls everyone of us, either to celebrate its wonders or to lament its absence. To praise its beauty or to denounce its complex nature. In Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Freud figures love (Eros) in its opposition to civilization. He states that community life relies on “a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to…
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Marxism and Pyschoanalysis: Conjunctions and Disjunctions
Conference Schedule: Friday, Dec. 1: Fletcher Challenge Theatre 1900 13:30 – 17:30: Undergraduate panels: Presentations HUM 350 students on Freud and Lacan. 19:00 – 20:30: Keynote: Andrew Feenberg (SFU) “Existential Politics: Marcuse’s Concept of Eros.” Respondent: Ian Angus. REFRESHMENTS TO FOLLOW Saturday, Dec 2: Lohn Policy Room 7000 9:15: Doors opening 9:30 – 10:30: Keynote: Jerry Zaslove (SFU Emeritus). Respondent: Alessandra Capperdoni. Jerry Zaslove, “Between Anxiety and Alienation Between a Rock…
