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Encortel
With the Lacan Salon’s 2025 Laconference on Feminine Desire, quickly approaching; A close reading of Jacques Lacan’s infamous seminar 20, On Feminine sexuality, the limits of love and knowledge (1998/1972-73) seems pertinent. A half century later, much has changed… “Or has it?” In our time, the central question of Lacan’s Seminar XX, Encore, is often considered solved, or perhaps irrelevant; sexual difference does not exist. How could a theory of sexuation…
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Clinical Seminar: A Psychoanalysis Begins
From preliminary interviews to orientating the treatment When: 7 sessions from March 8, 2025 – June 14, 2025, Fortnightly Saturdays 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Where: Room 2200 SFU Harbour Centre. Hybrid format. Who: Facilitated by Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez, PhD, RCC (See Biography below.) Dates: Mar 8 and 22, Apr 12 and 26, May 17 and 31, and Jun 14 Registration CLOSED Cost: $350 CDN – Fully employed, non-contingent workers $250…
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LS Speaker Series 2025 with Chris Vanderwees
When: Feb 18, 2025 07:00 PM Vancouver (PST) Where: Online. Please register for the event here. “Dwelling on the Direction of the Treatment for the Unhoused Subject” In this presentation, we will follow a few questions in light of work with analysands who may be unhoused due to multiple and interconnected contingencies of poverty, trauma, and addiction that form each singular circumstance of destitution. How can psychoanalysis listen to the discourse…
