# Corpo Freudiano Vancouver > Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis ## Posts - [Rendering Unconscious Podcast with Corpo Freudiano Vancouver](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/11/14/rendering-unconscious-podcast-with-corpo-freudiano-vancouver/): Rendering Unconscious Podcast Episode 360. To watch it or listen to it, click here. Rendering Unconscious welcomes the folks from Corpo Freudiano Vancouver to the podcast! Be sure to check out their website for LaConference 2025 Registration, Corpo Freudiano Vancouver Fundraiser, calendar of events, and more! On this episode, the formation and goals of Corporal Freudiano Vancouver, a psychoanalytic school committed to Lacanian and Freudian principles, were discussed. Participants, including Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez, Juan Luis de la Mora, Rachel Moxham, Alois Sieben, Desiree Jung, and Erik Larson, shared their various backgrounds and experiences. The school aims to integrate theoretical and clinical training, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches... - [Manifesto: Corpo Freudiano Vancouver](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/11/14/about-us-2/): Following our desire, the Lacan Salon declares itself a School of Psychoanalysis, committed to the transmission of psychoanalysis and the formation of analysts in Vancouver. We are sustained by the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, and associated with Corpo Freudiano, a psychoanalytic school founded in 1994 in Brazil.  The unconscious speaks and can be listened to. We aim to produce a psychoanalytic style that privileges singularity, criticality, community work, subjective implication and rigorous articulation of theory, without being orthodox. Concerned with the socio-political state of our world, we converse with the arts, philosophy, critical theory, and poetic discourses.... - [Board of Directors](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/11/14/board-of-directors-2/): Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez (President) is a Vancouver-based Lacanian psychoanalyst with over 30 years of clinical experience in public and private settings in both Mexico and Canada. Her doctoral research analyzes trauma and healing discourses in public mental health institutions. A co-founder of the Lacan Salon in 2007, she continues to serve as its president and has led clinical seminars since 2015. She is also an associate of Simon Fraser University’s Institute for the Humanities. Dr. Fernandez-Alvarez is an active speaker at international psychoanalytic conferences and colloquia, and her internationally published research explores psychoanalytic theory and practice, trauma, discourse, love, and politics.... - [Vulnerable Pleasures, a satellite art exhibition at LaConference 2025](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/10/03/vulnerable-pleasures-a-satellite-art-exhibition-at-laconference-2025/): Exhibition Hours: Friday October 17, 3 – 10pm Saturday October 18, 12 – 6pm With a special presentation by Carol Owens, Friday October 17 at 8:30pm In parallel with the LaConference on Feminine Desire, 12 clinical psychoanalysts were each given one artwork to analyze without knowing who the artist was. Their written responses are the basis of the exhibition, Vulnerable Pleasures. Drawing on Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti’s insistence that risk, tenderness, and vulnerability are conditions of subjectivity, the exhibition reimagines analysis as a practice of openness rather than mastery. Here, artworks appear less as objects to master than as enigmatic subjects whose desires... - [LaConference 2025 Registration / Program](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/09/30/la-conference-2025-registration/): Register here. LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of two remarkable and prolific psychoanalytic thinkers who left us too early: Anne Dufourmantelle (1964 – 2017) and Mari Ruti (1964 – 2023). LaConference: Feminine Desire Day 1 – Friday, October 17 8:30 – 9:00 AM                     Registration & Morning Coffee 9:00 – 9:10 AM                     Welcome: Hilda Fernandez 9:10 – 9:30 AM                     Land Acknowledgement, Opening Remarks: Wayne Wapeemukwa 9:30 – 11:00 AM     Panel 1: Feminine Threats • Alois Sieben: The Fantasy of Babygirl • Susanna Zhang (online): Unvoiced Ethics: Jocasta’s Secrecy and Echo’s Disembodiment Beyond Jouissance • Juan Luis de la Mora and... - [Corpo Freudiano Vancouver Fundraiser](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/08/24/corpo-freudiano-vancouver-fundaraiser/): Our silent auction with a range variety of items, from books, dance lessons to a staycation possibility in Vancouver. To bid in the SILENT AUCTION, please click here. Auction closes on October 18 at 12 pm. - [LaConference 2025: Call for Papers (closed)](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/08/24/laconference-2025-october-17th-and-18th-vancouver-canada/): Feminine Desire: Honoring the Life and Work of Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti Keynote Speakers: Carol Owens, Noëlle McAfee and Ana Hounie Call for Papers (CLOSED) The LaConference 2025 will explore and honor the work of two remarkable and prolific psychoanalytic thinkers who left us too early: Anne Dufourmantelle (1964 – 2017) and Mari Ruti (1964 – 2023). Duformantelle and Ruti marked our zeitgeist with intellectual and emotional rigor, courageously posing questions that over-spilled the rigid, phallic order. Both shared an intimate relationship with the Lacan Salon as keynote speakers in the LaConference 2016, On Love. Ruti and Dufourmantelle thematized secrecy,... - [Spearker Series with Leticia Cantú Alvarado](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/05/30/spearker-series-with-leticia-cantu-alvarado-decolonizing-on-a-verb-its-grammar-and-episteme/): 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 subjective realities. To practice psychoanalysis today, conceiving it as a finished theory that we would have to assume as dogma is frankly an absurdity, especially if we consider a... - [Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art, with Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/04/11/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 Vinci[1] and Michelangelo.[2] Freud tended to critique art in the way one would analyze a dream: by taking apart the various components of the piece and making greater sense... - [V 13, a film and talk by Richard C. Ledes](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/03/25/v-13-a-film-and-talk-by-richard-c-ledes/): Premiere in Canada by Corpo Freudiano Vancouver Dates and Times 6 PM, March 29th – 2 PM, April 6th: The Screening Window (paid) V13 will be available to watch from March 29th to April 6th. All those who purchase a ticket will receive a link to the film, and will also receive a Zoom link to attend the conversation (link also listed below). Please register for the conversation via Zoom before 10 AM on April 5th. Buy the movie ticket here. 10 AM – 12PM, April 5th: The Conversation (free) Richard C. Ledes, director of V13, will be in conversation with Corpo... - [Panel: Geopolitical Discourses in the Americas](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/02/27/panel-geopolitical-discourses-in-the-americas/): When: Saturday, March 15th, 10AM-12H30PM (PST) Where: Online, via Zoom. Registration here. ARGUMENT Only a few weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump and his techno-feudalist oligarchy effectively transformed the United States of America into a far-right authoritarian regime, sending shockwaves across the globe with unmistakable signs of fascism. This alarming shift manifested in the accelerated erosion of social institutions, the seizure of media communications, the scapegoating of immigrants, the dismantling of international treaties and agreements, the slashing of social funding, and the ominous threats of international expansionism, among other measures. This new form of fascism does not don a public... - [Encortel ](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/02/10/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 have any purchase in the contemporary moment? This moment when liberal feminism has become central to western governance, market and education. Like it or not.  Some versions of “not”... - [Clinical Seminar: A Psychoanalysis Begins](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/02/06/clinical-seminar-a-psychoanalysis-begins-from-preliminary-interviews-to-orientating-the-treatment/): From preliminary interviews to orientating the treatment When: 7 sessions from March 8, 2025 – June 14, 2025, Fortnightly Saturdays 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Where: Room 2200 SFU Harbour Centre. Hybrid format.  Who: Facilitated by Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez, PhD, RCC (See Biography below.) Dates:  Mar 8 and 22,  Apr 12 and 26,  May 17 and 31, and  Jun 14 Registration CLOSED Cost:  $350 CDN – Fully employed, non-contingent workers $250 CDN – $175 CDN – Sliding scale for students and contingent workers Other Amount Your contributions will fund the continuation of our programming. Paypal to @hifeera@hotmail.com or email transfer... - [LS Speaker Series 2025 with Chris Vanderwees](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/02/01/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 of the unhoused subject? How might we hear the Thing that is unheimlich or unhomely in homelessness? And how might one begin to think about the direction of the... - [Alternate Tuesday Presents: Science and Truth, by Jacques Lacan](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2025/01/07/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! - [Tuesday's Seminar Reading: Winter 2025 / Spring 2025](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/12/20/tuesdays-seminar-reading-winter-2025-spring-2025/): Seminar 15 (1967-1968), by Jacques Lacan The Psychoanalytical Act English Version, translation by Cormac Gallager, here French Version, by Staferla, here. January 14th, 2025 Lesson 01: November 15, 1967 Facilitator: Juan Luis de la Mora January 28th, 2025 Lesson 02: November 22, 1967 Facilitator: Désirée Jung February 11th, 2025 Lesson 03: November 29, 1967 Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukma February 25th, 2025 Lesson 4: December 06, 1967 Facilitator: Mandana Mansouri March 11th, 2025 Lesson 5: January 10, 1968 Facilitator: Group Discussion March 25th, 2025 Lesson 6: January 17, 1968 Facilitator: Kyle Crawley April 08th, 2025 Lesson 7: January 24, 1968 Facilitator: Hilda... - [Cartel Presentation - Crossing Paths: Counselling and Psychoanalysis](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/11/15/cartel-presentation-crossing-paths-counselling-and-psychoanalysis/): When: November 19, 2024, at 7pm to 9pm (PST) Where: Hybrid (Zoom): Access link here / and SFU Woodwards, Room 2205 (In Person) For over a year, the Crossing Paths: Counselling and Psychoanalysis cartel has been meeting to discuss the relationship or non-relationship between the fields of counselling and psychoanalysis. The cartel features a mix of practicing clinical counsellors, psychoanalysts, and some in between. In this alternate Tuesday presentation, we will present individual reflections on our past year of discussions and experiences, and invite others to share their thoughts and responses on this important topic. - [Psychoanalysis and Segregation: the other turn of 1920, by Sergio Campbell](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/11/14/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 20, 1920, Ferenczi sent the first of what would be known as the “Circulars ofThe Secret Committee.” On the 1st, 11th and 21st of each month, the members of... - [Cartel: The Lacanian Baby](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/10/12/cartel-the-lacanian-baby/): Argument The human subject is born prematurely, the so-called baby, and is incapable of sustaining life by itself, so an utter dependency is born between the baby and the Other of care. Lacanian psychoanalysis is one of the most sophisticated theories ever articulated about human subjectivity, as it provides a trajectory of psychic subject formation that includes the three registers of human experience and a temporality before one’s birth. We want to explore various aspects that concern the concept of the baby, in its theoretical, discursive, cultural and clinical aspects.  Members and our questions: Erik Larson My question regarding the... - [The superego in the clinic, by Dr. Marta Gerez Ambertín](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/10/12/the-superego-in-the-clinic/): 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 the necessary alliance with desire to counteract the ferocious effects of the superego. I will turn to the clinic to exemplify the superego mechanism through fragments of dreams of... - [Dan Adleman: On Psychoanalytic Identification and The New Rhetoric](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/08/13/identification-psychoanalysis-freud-and-lacan-talk/): 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 Adleman is a Director and Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the University of Toronto’s Writing and Rhetoric Program. He is the co-author of Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud,... - [Tuesday Lacan's Seminar Reading : Fall 2024](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/08/03/tuesday-lacans-seminar-reading-fall-2024/): Seminar XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan Translated by Cormac Gallagher The English translation of Seminar XII: Here The French version of Seminar XII: Here  September 03, 2024 Lesson 17: May 05th, 1965 Facilitator: Désirée Jung September 17, 2024 ONLINE ONLY Lesson 18 : May 12th, 1965 Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa October 01st, 2024 ONLINE ONLY Lesson 19 : May 19th, 1965 Facilitator: Juan Luis de la Mora October 15, 2024 Lesson 20 : May 26th, 1965 Facilitator: Erik Larson October 29th, 2024 Lesson 21 : June 2nd, 1965 Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukwa November 12th, 2024 Lesson 22 : June 9, 1965... - [Speaker Series presents Capitalism and Libidinal Economy: Loss and Emancipation with Mariana Hernández Urías.](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/05/16/speaker-series-capitalism-and-libidinal-economy-loss-and-emancipation-with-mariana-hernandez-urias/): 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 go? And subjection? If we think that capitalism also has productive effects of formation and subjectivation, wouldn’t this rejection of loss also be inscribed in the constitution of the... - [Alternate Tuesday: Facts Are Meaningless Unless You Care, by Yuya Takeda](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/05/11/alternate-tuesday-facts-are-meaningless-unless-you-care-by-yuya-takeda/): When: May 21st, 2024 / 7PM-9PM (PST) Where: SFU Woodwards and online. Register here. Abstract: Conspiracy theories are both timeless and timely as a topic of study. In terms of timelessness, “belief in conspiracies is,” borrowing Robert V. Bullough Jr.’s words, “probably as old as human language and certainly as old as war.” Despite this, academic research on conspiracy theories is rather new. According to Katharina Thalmann, the first wave of conspiracy theories research emerged during 1930s and 1940s as a response to the two World Wars and the rise of totalitarianism. Conspiracy theories are known to gain their popularity... - [Speaker Series: On Fantasy in Psychoanalysis by Marco Antonio Coutinho](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/04/27/speaker-series-on-fantasy-in-psychoanalysis-by-marco-antonio-coutinho/): Date: May 04th, 2024 Time: 10am to 12pm (PST) Location: Zoom, register here. Description From Freud to Lacan, the concept of fantasy has a central character in psychoanalytic theory; the involvement of fantasy within their conceptual apparatus is impressive. It is no coincidence that psychoanalysis was born when Freud gave up the technique of hypnosis, because instead of hypnotizing the patient, it stimulates his awakening from a hypnosis in which he is already immersed. This concept is so important that Lacan conceived of analytical treatment as a traversing of fantasy – one in which the subject has kept up until... - [The Radiance of Object Petit a](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/04/26/the-radiance-of-object-petit-a/): The radiance of object petit aFacilitated by Hilda Fernandez Date: May 07th, 2024 @ 7-9pm (PST) Where: SFU Woodwards and online. Register here. I am about to start a session when I receive a call from my sister who tells me that my mother passed away in the hospital. I hear the news, and something invades my mind and my body. Overwhelmed with mental fog and sluggishness in my body: I cannot cry, speak, or think.  On a sunny afternoon, wandering around the MUPE (Museum of Perfume) in Mexico City I saw, among many colorful glass bottles, a square glass container... - [Towards a school: Lacan Salon in conversation with Corpo Freudiano](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/04/03/towards-a-school-lacan-salon-in-conversation-with-corpo-freudiano/): When: April 13, May 18, June 15, June 29, 2024 – 10 am to 12pm (PST) Where: Online. The Lacan Salon, the first English-speaking group in Canada dedicated to the study of Lacanian psychoanalysis, was co-founded in 2007 by Hilda Fernandez, Paul Kingsbury, Clint Burnham and Jesse Proudfoot. Vancouver, Canada is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations. The Salon has been a unique space of confluence between the academy, the clinic, the artistic community and the community at large, enriching the intellectual life of the city of Vancouver, Canada, through the discussion of Jacques Lacan’s... - [Speaker Series: Eve Watson](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/03/10/speaker-series-eve-watson/): An Exegesis of the Case Study and its Significance in the Teaching and Transmission of Psychoanalysis When: April 06th, 2024 / 10 am to 12 pm (PST) Where: Online. Register here. About the event: The case study has been indispensable to psychoanalytic praxis and transmitting psychoanalytic practice. But what is a case study exactly? What qualifies and doesn’t qualify? Without cases, our development as practitioners would be limited. There are many different kinds of case studies and clinical vignettes and what seems to characterise them all is their incompleteness. We will explore this “incompleteness” and its connection to a case... - [Speaker Series: Dan Collins](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/03/10/speaker-series-dan-collins/): On Jacques Lacan’s Middle Seminars (XII and XIII) In collaboration with SFU Institute for the Humanities When: March 26th, 7PM to 9PM Where: Room 2205, SFU Woodwards Description: The “middle seminars” occupy a curious position in Lacan’s career. Between the major turning points of Seminar 11, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, and Seminar 17, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, the middle seminars occupy an ambiguous terrain. In Seminar 11, Lacan insisted upon  the subject’s determination by the Other, by language, by the network of the signifiers. This strict determination raised the question, Where is the place of the subject? Lacan spends... - [When the desire of the analyst meets the desire of the writer, what happens next?](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/03/06/lacan-salon-alternate-tuesday-presents/): “When the Desire of the Psychoanalyst meets the Desire of the Writer, what happens next?” Facilitated by Désirée Jung When: April 09th, 2024 Where: SFU Woodwards, Room 2205, 7pm-9pm (PST) The even will be hybrid. For zoom link, register here. My name is Désirée Jung, and I am a writer and artist from Vancouver. I am also an analysand, a Brazilian, a Canadian, a sexuated woman, a void, and many other things I can’t fit into words. You can get to know me better here.  My intention on proposing this conversation is not to lecture, nor to teach anyone about any of... - [From Signs to Signifiers: Art and Language in Autism, by Leon Brenner.](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/02/25/from-signs-to-signifiers-art-and-language-in-autism-by-leon-brenner/): Date: Saturday, March 02, 2024 Time: 10 am (PST) Place: Online, register here. Abstract: Specificities in linguistic development deeply impact the ability of autistic individuals to encode and communicate complex concepts, particularly those that are general, ambiguous, or abstract. This challenge extends beyond mere language skills, significantly influencing their emotional and social navigation. In this talk, we will explore the implementation of art therapy in strengthening the linguistic capabilities of those on the autism spectrum. Integrating insights from Lacan’s teachings, we will develop a unique perspective that reshapes our understanding of autistic language and its clinical implications. This approach goes... - [Alireza Taheri: The Late Modern Crisis of Sexuality](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/01/23/alireza-taheri-the-late-modern-crisis-of-sexuality/): What Can Psychoanalysis Provide Beyond the Clash Between the Ideologies of Essentialism and Total Freedom?  When: Saturday, Feb 3, 2024 (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST) Online Registration Abstract: Psychoanalysis holds that humans are speaking beings derailed from nature by speech and language. We are thus without essence, orphaned by nature. We therefore require cultural institutions to provide supplementation for this lack. Human cultures have always faced the task of regulating sexual practices through social institutions. Sexual identity too requires cultural supports enabling ascension to adulthood. Faced with the contemporary crisis of credibility regarding the universality of social institutions (now... - [Fall 2023 / Spring 2024: Seminar XI and XII(1964) by Jacques Lacan ](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2024/01/03/fall-2023-seminar-xi-1964-by-jacques-lacan/): The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis September 12, 2023 Seminar 2, 3, 4, 5-  The Unconscious and Repetition (pgs 17-67) Facilitator: Hilda Fernández September 26, 2023 Seminar 6 – The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze (pgs 67-79) Facilitator: Alois Sieben October 10 – ONLINE session: email contactlacansalon@gmail.com for the Zoom link) Seminar 13 & 14- The Deconstruction of the Drive and The Partial Drive and its Circuit  (pgs 161-187) Facilitator: Sanem Guvenc (online) October 24, 2023 The Field of the Other and Back to Transference Facilitator: Ted Byrne November 7, 2023 Excommunication / In You More Than You Group discussion Seminar... - [Clinical Seminar III: "The Institutional Unconscious"](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/19/clinical-seminar-iii-the-institutional-unconscious/): Presented by Hilda Fernandez, MA, RCC, with kind support of Lacan Salon and SFU Institute for the Humanities 10 sessions starting January 2019. Open to all and free of charge. The Institutional Unconscious · Presented by Hilda Fernandez Alvarez, MA, RCC, with the kind support of SFU Institute for the Humanities and the Lacan Salon. ·  8 sessions from January 12 to May 25th, 2019.  ·  Fortnight Saturdays 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ·  SFU Harbour Centre, 555 West Hastings St. Vancouver, BC  ·  Open to all and free of charge This seminar is an open invitation to learn how to read ways in which the... - [Links](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/19/suggested-links/): In English Lacan Toronto Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland The Lacan School of Psychoanalysis CFAR: The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Après Coup Psychoanalytic Association Centre for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture P.L.A.C.E. World Association of Psychoanalysis Western Branch Psychoanalytical Society BC Clinical Counsellors Association Lacanian Ink Lacan on UBUweb International Journal of Zizek Studies Freud Museum Vienna Freud Museum Lacanian Compass Lacan in Ireland FLi Lacan Circle of Australia In French  L’École Lacanienne de Psychanalyse École de la Cause Freudienne Transcription des Seminares de Lacan Insistance Corpo Freudiano Paris GIFRIC In Spanish Psicomundo... - [Contours Journal: Issue 10 / "In a Time of Plagues"](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/19/contours-journal-issue-10-in-a-time-of-plagues/): To read the issue, click here. To download the entire issue, here. Some highlights: Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez: “The Malaise of Distant Bodies and the Insistence of the Letter” Alessandra Capperdoni: “Noli me tangere: The Art of Parasitology in the Time of Coronavirus” Sanem Güvenç: “Writing Solitude or the Possibility of a (Feminine) Community (without an Exception) Wayne Wapeemukma: “Contagion Castration: Lacan’s Extimacy and Fanon’s Sociogeny on Anti-Indigenous Environmental Racism and Covid-19” Contours (online: ISSN 2369-2340) is the successor to the Institute for the Humanities’ previous journal, Humanitas. Its mandate is to publish original work that engages the contemporary significance of the humanities broadly... - [Dany Nobus: Transformations of Lacan's teaching and institutional transmissions from 1963 till 1967.](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/18/dany-nobus-transformations-of-lacans-teaching-and-institutional-transmissions-from-1963-till-1967-2/): Saturday, November 4, 2023 · 10 am – 12 pm PDT Online This inaugural talk of the Lacan Salon Speaker’s Series for 2023-24, Dany Nobus will present a lecture on the transformations in Lacan’s teaching and institutional transmissions from 1963 to 1967. Dany Nobus is a Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University London, a Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and a former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London. He has published extensively on the history, theory, and practice of psychoanalysis, exploring the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the arts, as well as the history of... - [Listening with Black Lives Matter](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/18/listening-with-black-lives-matter/): “Listening with Black Lives Matter” is a series of Lacanian-adjacent responses to/analyses of the current Black Lives Matter moment. Psychoanalysis and Lacanian analysis has a mixed history with respect to race, colonialism, and anti-black racism (one that Sheldon George and Derek Hook address with the new Lacan and Race collection forthcoming from Palgrave), so this might be an opportunity to demonstrate what a political-critical theory approach related to psychoanalysis might offer in the present moment. Indeed, even the rubric of “listening to…” could be questioned, for the very modus operandi of psychoanalysis, the talking cure, proximate as it is to... - [Contact Us](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/18/contact-us/): Welcome to the Corpo Freudiano Vancouver: Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis contact page! We’re thrilled to connect with fellow enthusiasts of psychoanalysis and subjectivity. We have several activities and events you can take part of, with many more to come in the near future. If you would like to join us in any of these events, or to be included in our mailing list, please email  secretarylacansalon@gmail.com to receive information on all of the above, as well the zoom links for online access. To stay informed about all upcoming reading group sessions and other thought-provoking activities organized by the Corpo Freudiano Vancouver,... - [Cartel: Crossing Paths of Counselling and Lacan](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/18/cartel-crossing-paths-of-counselling-and-lacan-2/): Diverse questions are welcomed from counsellors who may want to incorporate Lacanian psychoanalytic ideas into their practice and or, Lacanians who might view “counselling” as a way to develop a practice as a Lacanian Psychoanalyst where other options for licencing are limited, etc… Please email aloisksieben@gmail.com if you are interested in joining or click here. - [Francine Danniau: Exiled Tongues and Tales](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/18/francine-danniau-exiled-tongues-and-tales-2/): Saturday, December 2 – 10am PST Online Refugees coming to an analytical practice are bringing along their tongues and tales. How to approach when none of us, refugee and analyst is speaking the same tongue. I will speak about my encounter with some of these analysands, refugees but not refusing to speak. Jacques Alain Miller refers to working with people not speaking the same native language. He says it brings in “a certain not-understanding.” It introduces an enigma, allowing empty space and creating room for invention. Refugees often have to undertake a work of construction, to construct a language, or... - [Lacan with No Theory](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/18/lacan-with-no-theory-2/): Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Juan Luis de la Mora will be facilitating a hands-on introduction to some Lacanian concepts.   Topology studies the properties of shapes without worrying about distances or measurements. It describes how things are connected and related to each other and how they can be transformed without tearing or gluing. This means the appearance of a topological object is not as important as its connectedness and structural characteristics. Lacan thought the properties of certain topologies were good metaphors when dealing with subjectivity and its transformations. As a hands-on introduction to some of the spaces Lacan was interested in,... - [Spring 2017 / Fall 2017 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/17/spring-2017-fall-2017-schedule/): The Logic of Fantasy By Jacques Lacan Book XIV Translated by Cormac Gallagher, here. January 10 I. Session of 16 November 1966 Facilitated by: Paul Kingsbury January 24 II. Session of  23 November 1966 Facilitated by: Chris Dzierzawa February 7 III. Session of 30 November 1966 Facilitated by: Clint Burnham Additional reading: Jacques Alain Miller ‘Suture’ February 21 IV. Session of 7 December 1966 Facilitated by: Group discussion March 7 V. Session of 14 December 1966 Facilitated by: Hilda Fernandez March 21 VI. Session of 21 December 1966 Facilitated by: Sang Wu April 4 VII. Session of 29 December 1966 Facilitated by: Sang Wu... - [Spring 2016 / Fall 2016 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/17/spring-2016-fall-2016-schedule/): Transference, by Jacques Lacan, Book VIII Translated by Bruce Fink Spinoza’s Ethics Presented by Neven Knezevic Feb. 15th – Oct. 18 January 5  I. In the Beginning Was Love Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez January 19 II. Set and Characters Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury February 2 III. The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus Facilitator: Pascal Christeller February 16 Introduction and Spinoza’s Doctrine of Substance, Overview of Ethics I Facilitator: Neven Knezevic IV. The Psychology of the Rich: Pausanias Facilitator: Felipe Palau March 1 V. Medical Harmony: Eryximachus Facilitator: Lalo Espejo March 15 Ethics II Facilitator: Neven Knezevic VI. Deriding the Sphere: Aristophanes Facilitator: (Not)... - [Fall 2015 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/17/fall-2015-schedule/): Desire and its Interpretation By Jacques Lacan Seminar VI September 8 Seminar 20 (13.5.59) The Fundamental Phantasm Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez September 22 Seminar 21 (20.5.59) The Form of the Cut Facilitator: Alma Krilic October 6 Seminar 22 (27.5.59) Cut and Phantasm Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa October 20 Seminar 23 (3.6.59) The Function of the Subjective Feint Facilitator: Clint Burnham November 3 Seminar 24 (10.6.59) The Neurotic’s Dialectic of Desire Facilitator: Désirée Jung November 17 Seminar 25 (17.6.59) The Either…Or…of the Object Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury December 1 Seminar 26 (24.6.59) The Function of Splitting in Perversion Facilitator: Brock MacLachlan December 15 Seminar... - [Fall 2014 / Spring 2015 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/17/fall-2014-spring-2015-schedule/): Desire and its Interpretation By Jacques Lacan Seminar VI September 9 Annual General Meeting  September 23 Seminar 1 (12.11.58) Construction of the Graph Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa October 7 Seminar 2 (19.11.58)   Explicatory Supplement Facilitator: Alessandra Caperdoni October 21 Seminar 3 (26.11.58) The Dream of the Dead Father : “He didn’t know that he was dead…” Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury Supplementary reading: “The Unconscious”, Freud (1915) November 4 Seminar 4 (3.12.58)  Little Anna’s Dream Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez November 18 Seminar 5 (10.12.58) The Dream of the Dead Father: As He Wishes  Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez   December 2  Seminar 6 (17.12.58)  Introduction to the... - [Summer 2014 / Lacan Salon Reading Group](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/17/summer-2014-lacan-salon-reading-group/): Life and Death in Psychoanalysis by Jean Laplanche Most critics have come to terms with the contradictions in Freud’s work by attempting to impose a unified system even at the cost of rejecting crucial metapsychological concepts such as the death wish.  According to Jean Laplanche, “such variations or variants deserve better than a choice in favor of one or the other: they require an interpretation and such an interpretation implies that, as is the case with the analysis of dreams, all the elements be juxtaposed so that nothing be eliminated, that the either / or be retranslated into an and” in a way that... - [Fall 2013 / Spring 2014 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/17/fall-2013-spring-2014-schedule/): Anxiety, Seminar X, by Jacques Lacan September 3 Seminar 1 (14 Nov/62), pp. 2-12 Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez. ALSO Freud Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926) SE XX September 17  Seminar 2 (21 Nov/62), pp. 13-23 Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa October 1  Seminar 3 (28 Nov/62), pp. 24-35; supplemental reading, Heidegger, chapt. 30 of Being & Time – “Fear as a mode of state-of-mind” Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukwa October 15  Seminar 4 (5 Dec/62), pp. 36-47 Facilitator: Clint Burnham October 29  Seminar 5 (12 Dec/62), pp. 48-61 Facilitator: Alma Krilic ALSO An excerpt from Jean Paul Sartre. November 12  Seminar 6 (19 Dec/62), pp. 62-73 Facilitator: Alessandra Caperdoni November 26  Seminar 7 (9 Jan/63), pp. 74-87 Facilitator: Dan Starling December 10  Seminar 8&9... - [Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/17/fall-2012-schedule/): September 4 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytical Experience  (1949) pp 75-81; Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis (1948) pp 82-101; ALSO Freud, “On Narcissism” (1914) SE XIV (pp 69-102) Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez  September 19 “The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis,” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 334-363/401-436.* Facilitator: Désirée Jung ALSO Freud, ” On The History Of The Psychoanalytic Movement (1914) SE XIV (pp 1-7) and/or “An Autobiographical Study” (1925) SE XX (pp 2-69)  Facilitator: Myka Abramson October 3  “Introduction to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s ‘Verneinung’,” “Response... - [Summer 2012 / Lacan Salon Reading Group](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/17/summer-2012-lacan-salon-reading-group/): Žižek reading group Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism Venue: Access Gallery 222 E Georgia 7-9 pm Tuesdays July 3 Introduction, Part I: The Drink Before; Chapter 1 Vacillating the Semblances, Chapter 2 Where There is Nothing, Read that I love you (pp 1-135) July 10  Chapt 3 Fichte’s Choice, Part II: The Thing Itself: Hegel; Chapt 4 Is it still possible to be a Hegelian today? (pp 137-240) July 17  Interlude 1: Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx; Chapt. 5 Parataxis: Figures of the Dialectical Process; Interlude 2: Cogito... - [Summer 2011 / Lacan Salon Reading Group](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/summer-2011-lacan-salon-reading-group/): Introduction to the Reading of Hegel Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojeve Man is Self-Consciousness.  He is conscious of himself, conscious of his human reality and dignity; and it is in this that he is essentially different from animals, which do not go beyond the level of simple Sentiment of Self.  Man becomes conscious of himself at the moment when – for the “first” time – he says “I”.  To understand man by understanding his “origin” is, therefore, to understand the origin of the I revealed by speech.  (First paragraph of the Book) During the years 1933-1939 Alexandre Kojeve gave... - [Fall 2011 / Spring 2012 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/fall-2011-spring-2012-schedule/): Fall 2011 / Seminar II (1954-55) by Jacques Lacan The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis Sept 6  Introduction: Chapters I & II (pp. 3-24): Facilitating: Hilda Fernandez. Sept 20  (Music room: 8-10 pm) Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Repetition: Chapts. III, IV, V (pp. 27-63) Supplementary readings Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1921). Facilitating: Kyle Carpenter (Lacan), Clint Burnham (Freud) Oct 4  (Multimedia room: 8-10 pm) Chapts. VI, VII; The Freudian Schemata of the Psychic Apparatus: Chapt. VIII (pp. 64-101) Supplementary: Freud, The Origin of Psychoanalysis (Letters from Freud to Fliess) Letters 25,26,27. Facilitating: Ted Byrne (Chapter VI), Kerry Pollock (Remaining Lacan) Oct 18 (Multimedia room: 8-10 pm)... - [Fall 2010 / Spring 2011 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/fall-2010-schedule/): By Jacques Lacan  The Ethics of Psychoanalysis Sept 7  Outline of the Seminar/Introduction to the Thing (Chapts. I-III; pp. 1-42)  Hilda Fernandez ALSO: from Freud, The 1895 Project for a Scientific Psychology (SE I 330-335) (facilitating on Freud: Clint Burnham) Sept 14  Das Ding (Chapts. IV-VI; pp. 43-84). (Facilitating on chapt. IV: Clint Burnham; Chap VI Hilda Fernandez) Sept 28  Drives and things (Chapts. VII-IX; pp. 87-127); ALSO Joan Copjec, Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation, Chapt. 1 (facilitating: Jon Smith/Kerry Pollock) Oct 12  Courtly love (Chapts. X-XII; pp. 128-164) (facilitating Alessandra Capperdoni/Ted Byrne) Oct 26 The Neighbour (Chapts. XII-XIV; pp. 167-190); (facilitating Dylan Godwin) ALSO Freud, Civilization and its Discontents Nov 2  Jouissance (Chapts. XV-XVI; pp.... - [Summer 2010 / Lacan Salon Reading Group](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/summer-2010-lacan-salon-reading-group/): Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Part I: THE DESIRING MACHINES June 29th: An appetizer: Daniel W. Smith “The Inverse Side of Structure: Zizek on Deleuze and Lacan”; Desiring-Production, The Body Without Organs, the Subject and Enjoyment. July 3rd: Territorial Representation, The Barbarian Despotic Machine, Barbarian or Imperial Representation, The Urstaat (39 pages) July 6th: A Materialist Psychiatry, The Machines, The Whole and its Parts. July 10th: The Civilized Capitalist Machine, Capitalist Representation, Oedipus at Last (50 pages). Part II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FAMILIALISM: THE HOLY FAMILY July 13th: The Imperialism of Oedipus, Three Texts of Freud, The Connective Synthesis of Production, The Disjunctive Synthesis... - [Fall 2009 / Spring 2010 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/fall-2009-spring-2010-schedule/): Fall 2009 / Seminar XVII By Jacques Lacan The Other Side of Psychoanalysis Aug 25  Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez Introduction by Hilda Fernandez; Chapter I, “Production of the Four Discourses” (pp. 11–26). Sept. 8  Facilitated by Dave Gaertner and Myka Abramson Chapters II, “The Master and the Hysteric” & III, “Knowledge, a Means of Jouissance” (pp. 29–53); Jacques-Alain-Miller, “On Shame” (11–28)* Sigmund Freud, “Fragment Of An Analysis Of A Case Of Hysteria (Dora) (1905).  Dora case presented by Clint Burnham. Sept. 22  Facilitated by Marc Acherman and Carrie Pollack Chapters IV, “Truth, the Sister of Jouissance” & V, “The Lacanian... - [Fall 2008 / Spring 2009](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/fall-2008-spring-2009/): Freud’s Papers on Technique (1953–54) By Jacques Lacan Seminar I September 2  Facilitated by Clint Burnham September 16 Facilitated by Clint Burnham     IV: The ego and the other; V: Introduction and reply to Jean Hyppolite’s presentation of Freud’s Verneinung; Hyppolite “A Spoken Commentary on Freud’s Verneinung (see Appendix); VI: Discourse analysis and ego analysis; Freud “Negation” [SE XIX 235-9]. September 30  Facilitated by Dave Gaertner The Topic of the Imaginary VII: The topic of the imaginary; VIII: The wolf! The wolf! October 14  Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez IX: On Narcissism; X: The two narcissisms; Freud “On Narcissism: An Introduction” [SE XIV 67-102]).... - [Fall 2007 / Spring 2008](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/fall-2007-spring-2008/): Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis Elaborated by Hilda Fernandez and Michael McConkey September 18 Background and Influences: Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez  As a result of his time and influences, Lacan orchestrated an epistemic movement in the psychoanalytical field that centrally claimed a “return to Freud”. In this session we will discuss how Lacan’s central aphorism, “The unconscious is structured as a language,” is taken from the Freudian unconscious and his concept of a social individual that speaks. Through the Freudian concepts of parapraxes, displacement, and condensation we will see how Lacan threads these concepts through other influences (Saussure) to account for how the human subject establishes... - [Winter / Spring 2018 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/fall-2017-spring-2018/): Joyce and the Sinthome (1975-1976) By Jacques Lacan Seminar XXIII In english, here, or by Comarc Gallagher, part 1, here, and part 2, here.  In French, here.  THE SPIRIT OF THE NODES January 2, SEMINAR 1: 18 NOVEMBER 1975 On the logical use of the sinthome, or Freud with Joyce facilitator: Ted Byrne January 16, SEMINAR 2: 9 DECEMBER 1975 On what makes a hole in the real facilitator: Oliver Keane January 30, SEMINAR 3: 16 DECEMBER 1975 On the knot as the subject’s support facilitator: Sasha Langford THE JOYCE TRAIL February 6*, SEMINAR 4: 13 JANUARY 1976 Joyce and the... - [Fall 2018 / Spring 2019](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/fall-2018-spring-2019/): Formations of the Unconscious (1957-1958) by Jacques Lacan Seminar V In English, by Jacques-Alain Miller, here, or by Cormac Gallagher, here. In French, by Jacques-Alain Miller, here, or here. Formations of the Unconscious 1. THE FREUDIAN STRUCTURES OF WIT September 4, 2018 I. The Famillionaire / 6November 1957 Faciltator: Paul Kingsbury September 18 II. The Fat-millionaire / 13 November 1957 Faciltator: Oliver Keane October 2 III. The Miglionaire / 20 November 1957 Faciltator: Vivi Djadja October 16 IV. The Golden Calf / 27 November 1957 Faciltator: Lucas Pohl V. A Bit-of-Sense and the Step-of-Sense / 4 December 1957 Faciltator: Lucas Pohl October 30... - [Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 Schedule ](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/fall-2019-spring-2020/): Seminar XIX (1971-1972) By Jacques Lacan …or worse (…ou pire) In English: by Jacques-Alain Miller, or by Cormac Gallager, here. In French: by Jacques-Alain Miler, or here. 1. OF ONE SEX AND THE OTHER September 10 Seminar XIXa, Gallagher translation / 4 November 1971 The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge, part 1 Facilitator: Clint Burnham September 24 Seminar XIXa, Gallagher translation The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge, part 2 / 2 December 1971 Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez October 8 Seminar XIX I. The small difference / 8 December 1971 Faciltator: Paul Kingsbury October 22 II. The function x / 15 December 1971 Facilitator: Clint Burnham November 5 Seminar XIXa, Gallagher... - [Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/16/fall-2020-2021-schedule/): Fall 2021 / Seminar IX (1961-1962) by Jacques Lacan Identification Translated by Cormac Gallagher 1961-1962 The English translation of Seminar IX: Here The French version of Seminar IX: Here As we begin the Salon in the fall of 2020, we will be maintaining our virtual, zoom-enabled practice for the time being, due to restrictions on gatherings in British Columbia and Simon Fraser University guidelines. Thank you for your patience for those of you missing the in-person sessions (as most of us are!) and welcome, also, to our visitors from outside Vancouver who have joined us since March. The internationalization of... - [Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/15/fall-2021-2022-schedule/): Fall 2021 / Seminar IV by Jacques Lacan The Object Relation Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller Translated by A. R. Price Wiley, 2021 The French version of Seminar IV: Here SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS FALL 2021 September 7 Reading: PART ONE – Theorizing the Lack of Object Chapter I “Introduction” (21 Nov. 1956), pgs 3-17 September 21 Reading: Chapter II “The Three Forms of the Lack of Object” (28 Nov. 1956), pgs. 18-32 October 5 Reading: Chapter III “The Signifier and the Holy Spirit” (5 Dec. 1956), pgs. 33-50 October 19 Reading: Chapter IV “The Dialectic of Frustration” (12 Dec. 1956), pgs.... - [Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 Schedule](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/15/the-seminar-of-jacques-lacan-book-xviii-on-a-discourse-that-might-not-be-a-semblance/): Fall 2022 / Seminar XVIII (1971) by Jacques Lacan On a Discourse that might not be a semblance Translated by Cormac Gallagher 1971 The English translation of Seminar XVIII: Here The French version of Seminar XVIII: Here SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS 2022/2023 September 13 ONLINE session Seminar 1 – Jan. 13, 1971 (pgs. 2-17)  Facilitator:  Clint Burnham September 27   Seminar 2 – Jan. 20, 1971 (pgs. 18-35)  Facilitator:  Alessandra Capperdoni October 11 Seminar 3 – Feb. 10, 1971 (pgs. 36-53)  Facilitator:  Pascal Christeller October 25  Seminar 4 – Feb. 17, 1971 (pgs. 54-75) Facilitator:  Group discussion November 8 Seminar 5 –... - [LaConference 2011](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/15/laconference-2011/): Lacan Salon, Vancouver, British Columbia Saturday, March 19, 2011 The Western Front 303 East 8th Avenue Organizing committee: Clint Burnham, Hilda Fernandez, Nancy Gillespie, Paul Kingsbury, Jesse Proudfoot and members of the Vancouver Lacan Salon 9:00 a.m. – 9:45: on site registration 9:45: Opening remarks: Hilda Fernandez, Lacan Salon 10:00 – 11:15: Session I, Clinical Alejandro Cerda The time given: A return to Freudian metapsychology Hilda Fernandez Some Reflections On Paranoia In Aronofsky’s  Black Swan Evan C. Strauss Examining Dhrupad: Symbolism, Absence, and the Other 11:30 – 1:00: Session II, Texts Nancy Frelick Reading Renaissance Texts with Transference Dave Gaertner Intoxicated by the Signifier: Lacan, Death and Anatole Broyard’s Intoxicated by My Illness... - [LaConference 2015: A Century on the Drive](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/15/laconference-2015-a-century-on-the-drive/): Lacan Salon, Vancouver, BC, May 15-17/2015 Call for Papers: A century ago, in 1915, Sigmund Freud wrote three fundamental works on metapsychology: Drives and Their Fates/Vicissitudes, Repression, and The Unconscious. These texts revised and solidified the theoretical foundations he had been working on since his Project for Psychology (1895). In his essay on the drives, Freud famously located the drives, “on the borderline between the mental and the physical – the psychic representative of stimuli flowing into the psyche from inside the body”. Among the aspects implicated in the destinies of the drive experiences, Freud discussed: the turn against the contrary, activity/passivity (masochism, sadism), repression... - [LaConference 2018: Lacan and the Environment](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/14/laconference-2018-lacan-and-the-environment/): April 6-7, 2018 Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia Call for Papers LaConference is a conference series organized by the Lacan Salon of Vancouver, Canada. Previous iterations include LaConference 2011 (with keynote speaker Dany Nobus) at the Western Front, LaConference 2013 (on “the Symbolic Order in the Twenty-First Century” with keynote speaker Paul Verhaeghe) at the Simon Fraser University-Woodwards campus, LaConference 2015 (on “A Century on the Drive”) at SFU Woodwards, and LaConference 2016 (on “Love”, co-organized with the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workshop with keynote speakers Anne Dufourmantelle and Veronique Voruz), also at SFU Woodwards. The Lacan Salon meets regularly on alternate... - [Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups Fourteenth Annual Conference](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/13/affiliated-psychoanalytic-workgroups-fourteenth-annual-conference/): In partnership with the Lacan Salon  APW 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS: ON LOVE: Vancouver, BC, 30 July – 1 August 2016             Love calls everyone of us, either to celebrate its wonders or to lament its absence. To praise its beauty or to denounce its complex nature.             In Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Freud figures love (Eros) in its opposition to civilization. He states that community life relies on “a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work . . . and the power of love” (SE 21, 101). But although love is a foundation of civilization, a “rift between them seems unavoidable” (SE 21, 103).... - [Marxism and Pyschoanalysis: Conjunctions and Disjunctions](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/13/marxism-and-pyschoanalysis-conjunctions-and-disjunctions/): Conference Schedule: Friday, Dec. 1: Fletcher Challenge Theatre 1900 13:30 – 17:30: Undergraduate panels: Presentations HUM 350 students on Freud and Lacan.  19:00 – 20:30: Keynote: Andrew Feenberg (SFU) “Existential Politics: Marcuse’s Concept of Eros.” Respondent: Ian Angus. REFRESHMENTS TO FOLLOW Saturday, Dec 2: Lohn Policy Room 7000 9:15: Doors opening 9:30 – 10:30: Keynote: Jerry Zaslove (SFU Emeritus). Respondent: Alessandra Capperdoni. Jerry Zaslove, “Between Anxiety and Alienation Between a Rock and a Hard Place—Some Reflections of a Maladjusted Anarchist on where Marx and Freud have always had a Dialogue in my Thinking About: Who is Listening?”    10:45 – 11:45:... - [Interrogating the Nature of Contemporary Social Bonds with the Psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/13/interrogating-the-nature-of-contemporary-social-bonds-with-the-psychoanalysis-of-jacques-lacan/): A lecture and two seminars by Dr. Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes (Psychoanalyst and Founding director of 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico) December 5, 2012 7-9 pm SFU Harbour Centre. Room 7000 Lecture: “Towards a Lacanian Analytic of Contemporary Social Bonds” On the basis of a reappraisal of Jacques Lacan’s doctrine of the Four discourses, as developed in Seminar XVII, this lecture proposes to interrogate the nature of contemporary social bonds in the wake of the French analyst’s own later introduction of a fifth discourse, the Discourse of the Capitalist. Do the formalizations originally proposed by him in the wake of 1968 suffice to... - [Love and Jouissance: Conversation with Lacan on Feminine Sexuality](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/12/love-and-jouissance-conversation-with-lacan-on-feminine-sexuality/): Psychoanalysis reveals the unconscious sexuated in nature. Tied to the ontological question of how to be a woman or a man, the unconscious fails to fully represent an answer to such question. Comparing feminine to masculine sexuality, Freud asserted that “the sexual life of adult women is a ‘dark continent”[1] and he confessed that the question “that I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman wants?’” Freud viewed the Oedipus drama as the moment which women and men assume their respective sexual positions through the mediation... - [LaConference2013](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/12/laconference/): “Sixty Years After Lacan: On the Symbolic Order in the Twenty-First Century” Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Verhaeghe Location: GoldCorpo Centre for the Arts (149 West Hastings) Date: Saturday June 1, 2013 9am-5pm / Sundy June 2, 2013 11am-2pm - [Cartel: Covid-19](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/12/cartel-covid-19/): We are being traversed by a true event whose consequences are yet undetermined. This situation has moved us to articulate, from a psychoanalytic point of view, something of this historical event while the phenomenon continues unfolding. Members  Alessandra Capperdoni  Juan Luis de la Mora Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez Plus-One Francine Danniau If you want more information on the current cartels, please click here. - [Clinical Seminar IV: "What Makes a Psychoanalyst?"](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/11/clinical-seminar-iv-what-makes-a-psychoanalyst/): Registration is now closed. 7 sessions from March 18, 2023 – June 17, 2023 Fortnight Saturdays 10:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m. SFU Harbour Centre. Hybrid format. In this seminar, we will read central texts by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan that pertain to the question of what makes a psychoanalyst and what inheres a psychoanalytic practice. We also will read contemporary texts to explore, within our present circumstances, what are the hurdles and opportunities to develop a Freudo-Lacanian practice of psychoanalysis in Vancouver, BC. This Seminar is directed to people who have lived experience with psychoanalysis, as analysands and as... - [Clinical Seminar II: “Approaching the Symbolic, Real and Imaginary in Clinical Practices”](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/11/clinical-seminar-ii-approaching-the-symbolic-real-and-imaginary-in-clinical-practices/): To sustain a clinical practice, analysts and psychotherapists rely on a theoretical framework that defines their assumptions about human nature. Such theory informs the logic that guides their interventions and therefore impacts the results of such treatment. From a Lacanian perspective, human subjectivity is understood through three registers: the Symbolic, the Real and the Imaginary. Roughly speaking, within the Symbolic realm we locate language, culture, discourse and desire. The register of the Real brings about that which is beyond language, the unsayable, the traumatic nature of the sexual/death drive and its compulsion to repeat. And within the Imaginary register we find the Ego, conformed by the... - [Clinical Seminar I: “On the Therapeutic Act”](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/11/clinical-seminar-i-on-the-therapeutic-act/): The practice of psychotherapy calls for a necessary and ongoing reflection on the means, aims and conduction of the therapeutic process. The manner in which therapists approach their act involves an ethical responsibility and depends on the theoretical assumptions they hold as valid, useful and truthful. This Seminar offers an introductory frame that addresses psychodynamic as well as ethical and practical issues in the conduction of a psychotherapeutic act. We will approach such topics from a psychoanalytic perspective based on the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who in the span of 50 years, called a “return to Freud” and... - [Lacan and the Environment](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/11/lacan-and-the-environment/): Published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2021 Editors: Clint Burnham and Paul Kingsbury In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis. They argue that we cannot understand climate change and all of its multifarious ramifications without first understanding how our terrifying proximity to the real undergirds our relation to the environment, how we mistake lack for loss and mourning for melancholy, and how we seek to destroy the same world we seek to protect. The book traces Lacan’s contribution through a consideration of topics including... - [Listening to Covid-19](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/11/listening-to-covid-19/): The pandemic caused by the virus COVID19, an event in the Real, has traversed human experience and has had an unprecedented impact, materially and fantasmatically, on notions such as space, time, body, affect, economy and politics. This is a collection of perspectives on COVID-19, mostly engaging with Lacanian psychoanalytic thought that will approach the phenomenon from one of three categories: Clinical, Cultural and/or Political.  Clint Burnham: “COVIDeology in Six Parts”  Am Johal: ”Viral Time” Alessandra Capperdoni: “The Voracious Desire of COVID-19” Dan Collins: “Free Association” Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez: “Enjoying COVID19? Movement, home and body”  Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez: “¿Se goza el COVID19? Movimiento, hogar y cuerpo” Samir Gandesha: “The Gift... - [Listening to Silence](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/2023/12/10/listening-to-silence/): Education, the “impossible profession,” may be even more so with the alienating mediation of Zoom and other online interfaces – or is this just a symptom of our nostalgia for face-to-face pedagogy? While we are now able to reach or attend more audiences & events than before (Lacan Salon itself now has 40-50 people attending from around the world), that mediating technology is increasingly susceptible to the interferences and monetization of state and capital, showing the fraught politics (or “fragile absolute”) of the tēchnē on which we rely. But Lacanian theories of the gaze and the screen can help us,... ## Pages - [CORPO FREUDIANO VANCOUVER SCHOOL](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/corpo-freudiano-vancouver-school/): Belonging to Corpo Freudiano Vancouver: Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis means working together to create spaces for intellectual and analytic praxis for those interested in sustaining the possibility of psychoanalytic discourse in this region. CFV is committed to the transmission of psychoanalysis and the formation of analysts. We are sustained by the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, and associated with Corpo Freudiano, a psychoanalytic school founded in 1994 in Brazil. Our School provides the necessary conditions to assume responsibility for one’s own formation alongside others. The authorization of an analyst comes as a result of their trajectory and in... - [OPEN HOUSE CORPO FREUDIANO VANCOUVER](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/open-house-corpo-freudiano-vancouver/): This event took place on November 22nd, 2025. Watch the recording HERE Apply HERE to CFV School. Application deadline: January 04th, 2026. - [Donations](https://corpofreudianovancouver.com/donations/): If you would like to help our programming and contribute to our work of transmission of psychoanalysis, please consider donating whatever you can. Your help will be truly appreciated. For credit card and other methods, please click here. Or use the QR code bellow: For E-transfer and Interact, please use the email: treasurerlacansalon@gmail.com Thank you. We hope to see you in our future events! [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)