Activities
A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.
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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…
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INSISTution – How is psychoanalysis instituted?
Conversation with Macla Nunes* Free Event for Corpo Freudiano Members Please register HERE. For all others, CFV suggests a donation of $25-50 per person to help us keep hosting events like this one. 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, also became…
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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.…
