Meetings
A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.
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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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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…
