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LaConference 2025: October 17th and 18th, Vancouver, Canada
Feminine Desire: Honoring the Life and Work of Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti Keynote Speakers: Noëlle McAfee and Ana Houine Call for Papers 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…
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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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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…
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Clinical Seminar: A Psychoanalysis Begins
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 here Cost: $350 CDN – Fully employed, non-contingent workers $250…
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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!
