Media
An assembly of publications, recorded lectures and videos promoted by the Lacan Salon
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LaConference2013
“Sixty Years After Lacan: On the Symbolic Order in the Twenty-First Century” Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Verhaeghe Location: GoldCorpo Centre for the Arts (149 West Hastings) Date: Saturday June 1, 2013 9am-5pm / Sundy June 2, 2013 11am-2pm
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Lacan and the Environment
Published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2021 Editors: Clint Burnham and Paul Kingsbury In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis. They argue that we cannot understand climate change and all of its multifarious ramifications without first understanding how our terrifying proximity to the real undergirds our relation to the environment, how we mistake lack for…
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Listening to Covid-19
The pandemic caused by the virus COVID19, an event in the Real, has traversed human experience and has had an unprecedented impact, materially and fantasmatically, on notions such as space, time, body, affect, economy and politics. This is a collection of perspectives on COVID-19, mostly engaging with Lacanian psychoanalytic thought that will approach the phenomenon from one of three categories: Clinical, Cultural and/or Political. Clint Burnham: “COVIDeology in Six Parts” Am Johal: ”Viral…
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Listening to Silence
Education, the “impossible profession,” may be even more so with the alienating mediation of Zoom and other online interfaces – or is this just a symptom of our nostalgia for face-to-face pedagogy? While we are now able to reach or attend more audiences & events than before (Lacan Salon itself now has 40-50 people attending from around the world), that mediating technology is increasingly susceptible to the interferences and monetization of…
