Activities
A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.
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The superego in the clinic, by Dr. Marta Gerez Ambertín
When: November 2nd, 2024, 10:00 AM PST (Vancouver, BC) Where: Zoom, online. Please register here The superego precipitates acts of failure, as imperatives of enjoyment and as excessive punishment; it also hinders the psychoanalytic clinic. At the same time, the recourse to temper and negotiate with this fierce instance competes and corresponds to the unconscious desire – such is its alibi. Lacan in Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959-60) emphasized…
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Dan Adleman: On Psychoanalytic Identification and The New Rhetoric
When: August 22, 2004 @ 7pm – 9pm Where: SFU Woodwards, Room 2205 (In Person) and on Zoom. Please register here for online participation. Dan Adleman will speak about his research into rhetorician Kenneth Burke’s co-optation of Freud’s concept of “identification.” After surveying Burke’s modifications of Freud’s theories of identification, he will bring Burke’s rhetorical approach to identification (and other psychoanalytic concepts) into conversation with Lacan’s understanding of the term. Dan…
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Speaker Series presents Capitalism and Libidinal Economy: Loss and Emancipation with Mariana Hernández Urías.
When: June 01st, 2024 @ 10AM -12PM (PST) Where: Online. Register here. Abstract: Capitalism is not merely the pursuit of profit and wealth but implies a specific rationality that seeks continuous and calculated profit, a return on investment. It is an economic and political system that does not tolerate loss without compensation. Almost everyone accepts that capitalism has effects of domination on individuals and social groups, but how far does this domination…
