Speaker Series
A series of talks offered by the Lacan Salon with specialists in the field.
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Who’s Afraid of a Good Ole Chuckle? Psychoanalysis and Comedy in the Analytical Setting
When: August 5th, 2026 from 7PM 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. For all others, CFV suggests a donation of $25-50 per person to help us keep hosting events like this one. Comedy has never been taken as seriously as it is nowadays. Although Freud did write a book on jokes as witty…
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Spearker Series with Leticia Cantú Alvarado
DECOLONIZING: On a Verb, its Grammar and Episteme When: June 07th, 2025 10 AM (PST) / 11 AM (CDMX) Where: Online Zoom. Free event. Register here. Those who come to the consultation rooms where psychoanalysis is practiced are not exempt from material realities and contemporary political and social issues. As analysts, we listen to the singular, to that which cannot deny the mark of this contemporaneity, undoubtedly political, and which configures…
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Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art, with Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD
Date: May 03rd 2025 @ 10AM – 12PM (PST) Online: Registration here. The relationship between psychoanalysis and the fine arts is long and rich and, in fact, has been present from the very beginning. As Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was developing the field of psychoanalysis, he applied his new and evolving concepts to the study of the individual, groups, and culture, as well as to artworks and artists such as Leonardo da…
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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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Psychoanalysis and Segregation: the other turn of 1920, by Sergio Campbell
When: December 07th, 2024 Where: Online, @ 10 AM (PST). Register for the event on Zoom here. The twenties brought several changes in the history of psychoanalysis. To the perhaps betterknown ‘turn of 1920’— Freud’s introduction of the id, the ego, and the superego — we mustadd other events to the history of psychoanalysis which, although less known, had far-reachingeffects, defining its practice and institutions for decades to come. On September…
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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…
