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.
FLi STRUCTURED STUDY SEMINAR: ON JOUISSANCE w/ Dan Collins
This fully online series is a structured and intensive study seminar dedicated to the theme of jouissance. The seminar will be led by Dan Collins who will offer lecture and guided discussion at each meeting. Advance readings and CPD will be available to participants. Participants at each meeting are encouraged to offer responses and discuss and debate the meeting themes.
Dan Collins, PhD, MSW, lives and works in Buffalo, New York. For many years he has written on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and delivered lectures on psychoanalytic topics in various venues. Until recently, he also delivered an annual seminar with the group LacanToronto. His seminar is now housed in the Freud Lacan Institute. With Eve Watson, Dan edited Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice. He has a new book forthcoming from Palgrave: Lacan on the Road: A Guide to His Talks, Lectures, and Interviews Away from the Seminar. Dan is also a translator and is currently working on a new translation of Seminar 11.
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
LacanToronto 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.