Archive
Time-lapse of our activities so far.
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Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Schedule
Fall 2021 / Seminar IX (1961-1962) by Jacques Lacan Identification Translated by Cormac Gallagher 1961-1962 The English translation of Seminar IX: Here The French version of Seminar IX: Here As we begin the Salon in the fall of 2020, we will be maintaining our virtual, zoom-enabled practice for the time being, due to restrictions on gatherings in British Columbia and Simon Fraser University guidelines. Thank you for your patience for those…
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Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 Schedule
Fall 2021 / Seminar IV by Jacques Lacan The Object Relation Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller Translated by A. R. Price Wiley, 2021 The French version of Seminar IV: Here SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS FALL 2021 September 7 Reading: PART ONE – Theorizing the Lack of Object Chapter I “Introduction” (21 Nov. 1956), pgs 3-17 September 21 Reading: Chapter II “The Three Forms of the Lack of Object” (28 Nov. 1956), pgs. 18-32…
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Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 Schedule
Fall 2022 / Seminar XVIII (1971) by Jacques Lacan On a Discourse that might not be a semblance Translated by Cormac Gallagher 1971 The English translation of Seminar XVIII: Here The French version of Seminar XVIII: Here SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS 2022/2023 September 13 ONLINE session Seminar 1 – Jan. 13, 1971 (pgs. 2-17) Facilitator: Clint Burnham September 27 Seminar 2 – Jan. 20, 1971 (pgs. 18-35) Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni October 11…
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LaConference 2011
Lacan Salon, Vancouver, British Columbia Saturday, March 19, 2011 The Western Front 303 East 8th Avenue Organizing committee: Clint Burnham, Hilda Fernandez, Nancy Gillespie, Paul Kingsbury, Jesse Proudfoot and members of the Vancouver Lacan Salon 9:00 a.m. – 9:45: on site registration 9:45: Opening remarks: Hilda Fernandez, Lacan Salon 10:00 – 11:15: Session I, Clinical Alejandro Cerda The time given: A return to Freudian metapsychology Hilda Fernandez Some Reflections On Paranoia In Aronofsky’s Black Swan Evan C. Strauss Examining Dhrupad: Symbolism,…
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LaConference 2015: A Century on the Drive
Lacan Salon, Vancouver, BC, May 15-17/2015 Call for Papers: A century ago, in 1915, Sigmund Freud wrote three fundamental works on metapsychology: Drives and Their Fates/Vicissitudes, Repression, and The Unconscious. These texts revised and solidified the theoretical foundations he had been working on since his Project for Psychology (1895). In his essay on the drives, Freud famously located the drives, “on the borderline between the mental and the physical – the psychic representative of stimuli flowing…
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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…
