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…

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…

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…