Meetings
A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.
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V 13, a film and talk by Richard C. Ledes
Premiere in Canada by Corpo Freudiano Vancouver Dates and Times 6 PM, March 29th – 2 PM, April 6th: The Screening Window (paid) V13 will be available to watch from March 29th to April 6th. All those who purchase a ticket will receive a link to the film, and will also receive a Zoom link to attend the conversation (link also listed below). Please register for the conversation via Zoom before 10…
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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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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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Tuesday’s Seminar Reading: Winter 2025 / Spring 2025
Seminar 15 (1967-1968), by Jacques Lacan The Psychoanalytical Act English Version, translation by Cormac Gallager, here French Version, by Staferla, here. January 14th, 2025 Lesson 01: November 15, 1967 Facilitator: Juan Luis de la Mora January 28th, 2025 Lesson 02: November 22, 1967 Facilitator: Désirée Jung February 11th, 2025 Lesson 03: November 29, 1967 Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukma February 25th, 2025 Lesson 4: December 06, 1967 Facilitator: Mandana Mansouri March 11th, 2025…
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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…