Speculative scholarship depends on networks of associated thoughts, cooperative thinkers, and linked projects. Groups active in exploring the scholarly and clinical potential of Lacanian psychoanalysis include the Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, LACK, the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland, Écrits, the Freud/Lacan Institute, Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, LacanSalon, and LacanToronto. This page will feature announcements and links to events.
FREUD MUSEUM LONDON: CALL FOR PAPERS ON ‘HOME’
The Freud Museum London announces a second cycle of the Freudian Research Seminar Series (FRSS) commencing autumn 2025. The FRSS convenes virtually once every month and seeks to establish a forum which both cultivates and circulates new psychoanalytically informed research. They welcome both PhD students and Researchers across disciplines to participate and form a community in which new ideas can be openly discussed and developed. To celebrate our forthcoming exhibition: Housekeeper, their theme for the second series is ‘Home’. FML is looking for papers between 30–40 minutes in length to be delivered from October to June.
Thanks to Fatemeh Meydani’s keen eye for spotting this iPSA-intensive opportunity!
iPSA members are encouraged to participate in this project and are invited to discuss preliminary ideas at a zoom discussion Sunday, June 28, at 12 pm Eastern US time.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
• Homelessness: the loss of home; or providing therapy to those in financial crisis
• Renting v. Ownership of a home and its mental impact
• Displacement and the refugee crisis
• ‘The ego is not master in its own house’; home between body and mind
• Construction of identity (gender, sexuality, ethnicity) through the domestic space
• Home as the parental domain
• Cinematic / Literary / Artistic representations and engagements with the domestic space
• 20 Maresfield Gardens / 19 Bergasse
• The domestic space as setting for psychoanalytic practice
• Furniture, between commodity and memory
• Home and the unhomely (uncanny)
To apply, submit a Word document containing a title, an abstract between 200-300 words and a short bio to Perry Hughes and Tom DeRose at perry@freud.org.uk and tom@freud.org.uk. The deadline for submissions is July 25. We will respond to all applicants by August 25 and release a schedule in the week commencing with the 1st September. Direct any queries you have to perry@freud.org.uk.
LACK 2025
The 2025 LACK CONFERENCE will be held at Otterbein University, in Westerville, Ohio, March 13–15. LACK was formed in 2015 to bring together theorists interested in engaging psychoanalytic theory and its intersection with philosophy, politics and contemporary culture. As its name suggests, historical focus has been on the work of Freud and Lacan. This next year’s event will feature Slavoj Žižek as keynote speaker. Participants can address any issues touching on Lacanian theory in the broadest sense.
Anyone interested in a special session devoted to Architecture and Lacan contact John Hendrix or Don Kunze. Short presentations (12–15 minutes) are recommended. Email proposals (title, 250-word description, short bio, MS-Word format) to Jennifer Friedlander (jennifer.friedlander@pomona.edu).
PROPOSALS DUE SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
Freud-Lacan Institute (FLi) / APPI
APPI is the largest group of psychoanalytic clinicians in Ireland. It started out in 1993 as a relatively small group sharing an interest in psychoanalysis and drawn to the work of Freud and Lacan. Freudian Lacanian psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy remains their focus. The Freud Lacan institute (FLi) is dedicated to supporting and promoting psychoanalysis in Ireland and around the world. It aims to bring together clinicians, students, scholars, researchers and anyone interested in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Both groups coordinate their efforts and offer on-line and in-person events, training programs, and seminars.
Overseas members are non-accredited members of APPI. Benefits of Overseas Membership:
- Receive a regular e-bulletin with news of events and developments in the field of psychoanalysis.
- Receive Lacunae – the APPI Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis (published twice yearly).
- Gain access to PEP-Web, the ultimate on-line resource for research in the Freudian-Lacanian Field.
the fourth volume of écrits commentaries
Derek Hook announces the release of Vol. 4, Reading Lacan’s Écrits, published by TaylorFrancis, edited by Derek Hook, Calum Neill, and Stijn Vanheule. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan’s Écrits to be published in English. This fourth volume constitutes an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan’s most notoriously challenging writings. As there is no existing set of commentaries on Lacan’s Écrits available in English, this volume forms an essential reference-text for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice, philosophers, cultural theorists and literary, social science and humanities researchers.
Cost in US (Amazon) is $39,95, released February 23, 2024.
LACAN•TORONTO
Lacan Toronto is an active, enlarging group of “people interested in Lacan” in Toronto. It is diverse, consisting of psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, university professors, graduate students, people in business and people in retirement. Some of its members did previous Lacan studies and personal analyses in other countries, some use Lacanian theory in their clinical work, some in their academic pursuits, and others began reading Lacan for the first time in the context of this group.