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 unspeakable/traumatic unconscious appears and disappears in institutional practices, by mapping the positions that speakers and their interlocutors occupy in language and the terms of exchange materialized in the social relation they sustain.

 Following Lacan’s theory of the four discourses (1969-70) we will interrogate those intrapsychic/intersubjective conditions at work within an institution, hoping to develop a critical understanding of the underpinning dynamics of discursive modalities that constitute different ways of making social bond, such as: master-oppressor, hysteric-protestor, university-scientist, analyst-revolutionary, and capitalist-reification.

This seminar is designed to advance questions about institutional practices and thus it will work best if you have an interest in developing a critical positionality within an institutional practice, such as clinical, educational, artistic, community development, etc.

We invite case presentations of own embodied practice, so we work on notions that have an impact on our direct experience, rather than just developing an empty theoretical sophistication.

 Detailed program upon registration. Please register before attending. It is highly recommended that you attend the first session to discuss the way we will work.

To register: http://www.lacansalon.com/clinical-seminar/clinical-seminar-iii

Contact: clinicdirectorlacansalon@gmail.com

Acknowledgements

This Seminar will take place on unceeded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

Art: Diego Rivera (1934) Man at the Crossroads

Program 

January 12 – room 200 (SFU HC lower concourse)

Introduction to the Four Discourses.

January 26 – room 2250 (SFU HC upper concourse)

Master Discourse: Find it within.

February 9 – room 2250.

Hysteric Discourse: What does she want? A Master to castrate! When does she want it? Now!

February 23 – room 2250. 

University Discourse: All is possible and we don’t have any questions. 

March 9 – room 2250. 

Analyst Discourse: Letting object a speak

March 23 – room 2250. 

Capitalist Discourse in its late form: Auto-erotism, lacking a lack.

April 20 – room 2250 

Reification: Neoliberal zeitgeist. (With guest speaker Andrew Feenberg).

May 4^th – room 2235 (SFU HC upper concourse). 

Reading the legible and the traumatic in an institution. 

Contact: clinicdirectorlacansalon@gmail.com

*Image: Man at the Crossroads, Diego Rivera (1934)