Leaky jars of jouissance

Join us for an online event on the Lacanian concept of jouissance and the Greek myth of the Danaides, with Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez Online event Thu, 28 April 2022. 12:00 – 13:30 PDT Lacan first introduces the phrase ‘surplus jouissance’ in Seminar 17, invoking Marx’s notion of surplus value. In the context of this same seminar, Lacan connects jouissance to the …

1968–2018 Then and Now Conference: “Resistances against Dominant Psychiatric and Therapeutic Paradigms”. SFU Institute for the Humanities.

Co-sponsored by SFU’s Institute for the Humanities, Department of Humanities, J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Department of History, School of Communication, SFU Public Square, and the Lacan Salon. On the 50th anniversary of 1968, this conference will consider various aspects of “the Sixties” in the light of what has developed since considering …