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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…
