Activities
A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.
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Encortel
With the Lacan Salon’s 2025 Laconference on Feminine Desire, quickly approaching; A close reading of Jacques Lacan’s infamous seminar 20, On Feminine sexuality, the limits of love and knowledge (1998/1972-73) seems pertinent. A half century later, much has changed… “Or has it?” In our time, the central question of Lacan’s Seminar XX, Encore, is often considered solved, or perhaps irrelevant; sexual difference does not exist. How could a theory of sexuation…
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LS Speaker Series 2025 with Chris Vanderwees
When: Feb 18, 2025 07:00 PM Vancouver (PST) Where: Online. Please register for the event here. “Dwelling on the Direction of the Treatment for the Unhoused Subject” In this presentation, we will follow a few questions in light of work with analysands who may be unhoused due to multiple and interconnected contingencies of poverty, trauma, and addiction that form each singular circumstance of destitution. How can psychoanalysis listen to the discourse…
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Alternate Tuesday Presents: Science and Truth, by Jacques Lacan
When: January 21st, at 7PM to 9PM (Pacific Time) Where: Hybrid (Zoom) and SFU Woodwards, Room 2205 (In person) On this tuesday, Juan Luis de la Mora will facilitate a group discussion on “Science and Truth,” by Jacques Lacan, which can be found on Ecrits. No previous knowledge is required. Please join us in the discussion!
