Speaker Series
A series of talks offered by the Lacan Salon with specialists in the field.
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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…
