Conferences
Lacan Salon conferences and affiliated participations.
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Vulnerable Pleasures, a satellite art exhibition at LaConference 2025
Exhibition Hours: Friday October 17, 3 – 10pm Saturday October 18, 12 – 6pm With a special presentation by Carol Owens, Friday October 17 at 8:30pm In parallel with the LaConference on Feminine Desire, 12 clinical psychoanalysts were each given one artwork to analyze without knowing who the artist was. Their written responses are the basis of the exhibition, Vulnerable Pleasures. Drawing on Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti’s insistence that risk, tenderness, and vulnerability are…
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LaConference 2025 Registration / Program
Register here. LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of two remarkable and prolific psychoanalytic thinkers who left us too early: Anne Dufourmantelle (1964 – 2017) and Mari Ruti (1964 – 2023). LaConference: Feminine Desire Day 1 – Friday, October 17 8:30 – 9:00 AM Registration & Morning Coffee 9:00 – 9:10 AM Welcome: Hilda Fernandez 9:10 – 9:30 AM Land Acknowledgement, Opening Remarks: Wayne Wapeemukwa 9:30 – 11:00 AM Panel 1:…
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LaConference 2025: Call for Papers (closed)
Feminine Desire: Honoring the Life and Work of Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti Keynote Speakers: Carol Owens, Noëlle McAfee and Ana Hounie Call for Papers (CLOSED) The LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of two remarkable and prolific psychoanalytic thinkers who left us too early: Anne Dufourmantelle (1964 – 2017) and Mari Ruti (1964 – 2023). Duformantelle and Ruti marked our zeitgeist with intellectual and emotional rigor, courageously posing…
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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…
