Archive
Time-lapse of our activities so far.
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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…
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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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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!
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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…
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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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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…
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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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Tuesday Lacan’s 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…
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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…
