Activities

A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Dan Collins: Seminar on the Freudian-Lacanian Drives

    When: March 31st, 2026 (Tuesday) / April 2nd, 2026 (Thursday) 7PM – 9PM Where: SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (Hybrid event, also on Zoom) Registration and cost HERE. We are pleased to invite you to join us for two hybrid seminar sessions with Dan Collins, offered as part of the Module Zero (The Formation of the Analyst) of our Corpo Freudiano Vancouver school. For this Module, we are opening a…