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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
