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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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LaConference2013
“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
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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…
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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…
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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…
