Activities
A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.
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The drive in Freud and Lacan: from the relations between body and language to the scientific status of psychoanalysis.
Seminar with Tiago Ravanello* Open event. Registration HERE When: Saturday, October 31st, 2026 – 10 am to 1pm (Vancouver, BC) Where: Online, Zoom. In this session, we will return to Freud’s first considerations about the drive and its economic processes as a way of understanding the formation of symptoms and the field of sexuality. In a quick flight through Freud’s work, we will note his implication in the construction of concepts…
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The drive and the unconscious in clinical presentations
Seminar with Dries G. M. Dulsster* Open Event (ONLINE), registration HERE. When: Saturday 21 of November 2026, 10h30 AM to 12h30 PM (Vancouver, BC) This talk explores how Lacanian concepts of the drive, object a, and jouissance can orient differential diagnosis in clinical practice. Rather than beginning from observable symptoms alone, I will examine how different clinical structures organise and localise jouissance in distinct ways. Focusing particularly on psychosis, I will…
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Topology with Juan Luis de la Mora
When: Saturday, September 19 / Saturday, October 03rd Hybrid Event. Online and at SFU Woodwards, Room 4390 From 10am to 1pm Registration required HERE Throughout his teaching, Jacques Lacan turned to topology as a resource for exploring subjectivity, the unconscious and the drives, as well as the analytic experience itself and the transmission of psychoanalysis. He approached it less as a technical instrument than as something to work and play with:…
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INSISTution – How is psychoanalysis instituted?
Conversation with Macla Nunes* Free Event for Corpo Freudiano Members For all others, CFV suggests a DONATION of $25-50 to help us keep hosting events like this one. Please register HERE. EVENT ONLINE August 22, 2026 – 10AM to 12PM (Vancouver Time) The history of analytic institutions reveals that the psychoanalytic community is not immune to the compulsion of regulation and dogmatism. Sigmund Freud, when discovering the unconscious and inventing psychoanalysis,…
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Summer Lacan Salon: Decoding Freud’s Theory of Dreams During the FIFA World Cup
When: Every Tuesday in July from 7PM – 9PM PST Where: SFU Woodwards/Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Room 2205 (Hybrid event, also on Zoom with registration details below) We all dream. Even if you don’t remember them, dreams are there to preserve your sleep, to protect your needed rest. This evanescent and intimate factory of the fantastic, the sublime, the comical or the horrific constitutes a human fascination from time immemorial.…
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“On Shame”: A Seminar with Sharon R. Green*, Ph.D.
When: June 23rd, 2026 from 6PM to 9PM (Vancouver, BC) Where: SFU Woodwards/Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Room 2205 (Hybrid event) Please register HERE. Free Event for Corpo Freudiano members. When we feel that we’ve been exposed to the gaze of another as vulnerable, lacking, unlovable or unworthy, the experience of shame is profoundly painful. However, the perspective that Sharon Green proposes in this seminar is that it is through bearing…
