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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…
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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, 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…
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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 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…
