Archive
Time-lapse of our activities so far.
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Alternate Tuesday: Facts Are Meaningless Unless You Care, by Yuya Takeda
When: May 21st, 2024 / 7PM-9PM (PST) Where: SFU Woodwards and online. Register here. Abstract: Conspiracy theories are both timeless and timely as a topic of study. In terms of timelessness, “belief in conspiracies is,” borrowing Robert V. Bullough Jr.’s words, “probably as old as human language and certainly as old as war.” Despite this, academic research on conspiracy theories is rather new. According to Katharina Thalmann, the first wave of…
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Speaker Series: On Fantasy in Psychoanalysis by Marco Antonio Coutinho
Date: May 04th, 2024 Time: 10am to 12pm (PST) Location: Zoom, register here. Description From Freud to Lacan, the concept of fantasy has a central character in psychoanalytic theory; the involvement of fantasy within their conceptual apparatus is impressive. It is no coincidence that psychoanalysis was born when Freud gave up the technique of hypnosis, because instead of hypnotizing the patient, it stimulates his awakening from a hypnosis in which he…
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The Radiance of Object Petit a
The radiance of object petit aFacilitated by Hilda Fernandez Date: May 07th, 2024 @ 7-9pm (PST) Where: SFU Woodwards and online. Register here. I am about to start a session when I receive a call from my sister who tells me that my mother passed away in the hospital. I hear the news, and something invades my mind and my body. Overwhelmed with mental fog and sluggishness in my body: I cannot…
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Towards a school: Lacan Salon in conversation with Corpo Freudiano
When: April 13, May 18, June 15, June 29, 2024 – 10 am to 12pm (PST) Where: Online. The Lacan Salon, the first English-speaking group in Canada dedicated to the study of Lacanian psychoanalysis, was co-founded in 2007 by Hilda Fernandez, Paul Kingsbury, Clint Burnham and Jesse Proudfoot. Vancouver, Canada is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations. The Salon has been a unique space of confluence…
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Alternate Tuesday: On the question of the feminine becoming an ism?
Where: Online. Register here for Zoom link. When: June 18th, 07-09 pm (PST) On the question of the feminine becoming an ism? Facilitated by Leigh Tennant The concept of femininity traverses psychoanalysis, philosophy, feminism and popular culture and never fails to create movement. Femininity is deconstructed, rejected, idolized and censored in the social link but from a Freudo-Lacanian perspective, and in the context of the Alternate Tuesday discussions, what even is…
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Speaker Series: Eve Watson
An Exegesis of the Case Study and its Significance in the Teaching and Transmission of Psychoanalysis When: April 06th, 2024 / 10 am to 12 pm (PST) Where: Online. Register here. About the event: The case study has been indispensable to psychoanalytic praxis and transmitting psychoanalytic practice. But what is a case study exactly? What qualifies and doesn’t qualify? Without cases, our development as practitioners would be limited. There are many…
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Speaker Series: Dan Collins
On Jacques Lacan’s Middle Seminars (XII and XIII) In collaboration with SFU Institute for the Humanities When: March 26th, 7PM to 9PM Where: Room 2205, SFU Woodwards Description: The “middle seminars” occupy a curious position in Lacan’s career. Between the major turning points of Seminar 11, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, and Seminar 17, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, the middle seminars occupy an ambiguous terrain. In Seminar 11, Lacan insisted upon …
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When the desire of the analyst meets the desire of the writer, what happens next?
“When the Desire of the Psychoanalyst meets the Desire of the Writer, what happens next?” Facilitated by Désirée Jung When: April 09th, 2024 Where: SFU Woodwards, Room 2205, 7pm-9pm (PST) The even will be hybrid. For zoom link, register here. My name is Désirée Jung, and I am a writer and artist from Vancouver. I am also an analysand, a Brazilian, a Canadian, a sexuated woman, a void, and many other things I…
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From Signs to Signifiers: Art and Language in Autism, by Leon Brenner.
Date: Saturday, March 02, 2024 Time: 10 am (PST) Place: Online, register here. Abstract: Specificities in linguistic development deeply impact the ability of autistic individuals to encode and communicate complex concepts, particularly those that are general, ambiguous, or abstract. This challenge extends beyond mere language skills, significantly influencing their emotional and social navigation. In this talk, we will explore the implementation of art therapy in strengthening the linguistic capabilities of those…
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Alireza Taheri: The Late Modern Crisis of Sexuality
What Can Psychoanalysis Provide Beyond the Clash Between the Ideologies of Essentialism and Total Freedom? When: Saturday, Feb 3, 2024 (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST) Online Registration Abstract: Psychoanalysis holds that humans are speaking beings derailed from nature by speech and language. We are thus without essence, orphaned by nature. We therefore require cultural institutions to provide supplementation for this lack. Human cultures have always faced the task of regulating…
