Lacan Toronto is a working-group that promotes the study and practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Regular group meetings are held bi-weekly on Sunday and are organized in two inter-related sessions which occur on the same day: 1) a morning Reading Group (10am-1pm EST), and 2) an afternoon guest Teaching Session (1:30-3pm EST). The meetings are hosted online using the Zoom platform.
The Reading Group (10am-1pm EST) meetings are for anyone interested in reading Jacques Lacan’s seminars, writings, and interviews, whether or not you have attended previous study groups or meetings. A participant briefly introduces the week’s selected material followed by a line-by-line recitation of the text by the group for exegesis, elaboration, and associative work. The primary text for 2024-2025 is indicated below. Meetings occur the morning of the dates listed in the Teaching Sessions calendar.
The Teaching Sessions (1:30-3pm EST) are host to a guest who presents clinical material, current research, theoretical innovations, or other novel contributions to Lacanian studies in a supportive interdisciplinary setting.
There is no registration or fee to participate in these meetings. To receive Lacan Toronto announcements along with the Zoom meeting link or for information about registered membership, please email: jehamilton@rogers.com, Judith Hamilton (Co-ordinator).
Reading Group Text
Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVI: From an Other to the other, [1968-1969] ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Bruce Fink (Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press, 2024)
Teaching Sessions
This year our guest speakers are welcomed from Australia, Ireland, Scotland, China, England, Germany, Italy, the United States, and Canada. Our contributors examine complex issues such as shame, destitution, segregation, and religion. Philosophical intersections and historical encounters are revisited by closely reading Lacan’s seminars and writings. Femininity and sexuality are addressed with nuance. Topology is reimagined by reading case studies of popular and material culture. New pathways are charted in neuropsychoanalysis as we are reminded of the legacies of colonialism. The clinical setting is returned to as a site of ethical engagement, whether in private practice or in institutions, to confront the diversity of contemporary conditions such as disability and eating disorders, among many others, in group and individual settings. And, we are gifted with commentaries on new translations among other vital contributions. For more information about the guest presenters, please click the highlighted links in the table below. For more information regarding the Lacan Toronto Education Program, please email: tejpalajji@gmail.com, Tejpal Ajji (Curator).
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Lacan Toronto Teaching Sessions Calendar: 2024-2025
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Presenter
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Affiliations, Publications & Working Groups
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08 September 2024
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Levi R. Bryant
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“The Symptom from the Symbolic to the Real”
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Collin College, Larval Subjects, “The Democracy of Objects” (Author), and “Onto-Cartography” (Author)
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22 September 2024
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Eve Watson
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“Psychoanalysing Shame”
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Freud Lacan institute (FLi), Lacunae Journal, “Clinical Encounters in Sexuality” (Co-editor), and “Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice” (Co-editor)
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06 October 2024
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Macario Giraldo
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“Dialogues in and of the Group: Lacanian Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Group”
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The Lacanian Forum of Washington D.C. (IF-EPFCL) and “The Dialogues in and of the Group” (Author)
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20 October 2024
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Daniel Tutt
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“Lacan and the Desire of the Left”
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Emancipations with Daniel Tutt, The Lacanian Forum of Washington D.C. (IF-EPFCL), The George Washington University, and “Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family” (Author)
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03 November 2024
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Michael J. Miller
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“Imaginary Ethics: A Critique of the Recognition Imperative via Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Lacan”
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The State University of New York—Upstate Medical University, The Center for Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry (CP3), and “Lacanian Psychotherapy” (Author)
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17 November 2024
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Daphne Tamarin
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“The unconscious: knowledge without subject—Comments on seminar ‘From an Other to the other‘ based on Colette Soler’s seminar ‘Advents of the Real‘ (2014-2015)”
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The Lacanian Forum of London (IF-EPFCL) and Colette Soler, “Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter” (Co-translator)
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01 December 2024
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Alireza Taheri
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“On Femininity”
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Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, PersPsy Analytic (Persepolis Psychoanalytic), Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, “Hegelian-Lacanian Variations on Late Modernity” (Author), and “Philosophy After Lacan” (Co-editor)
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15 December 2024
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Donald Kunze
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“Is There a Possibility for a New Lacanian Topology?”
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boundary language, Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in Architecture (IPSA), and Pennsylvania State University (Professor Emeritus)
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05 January 2025
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Samo Tomšič
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“The Symbolic-Machine: Extraction, Production, Destruction”
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University of Fine Arts—Dresden (Professor), Humboldt University—Berlin (Researcher), “The Capitalist Unconscious” (Author), and “The Politics of Lacanian Structuralism” (Presenter, Emancipations with Daniel Tutt)
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19 January 2025
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Leon S. Brenner
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“The Skin as the Source of the Dermic Drive: Modes of Dermic Punctuation in the Containment of Meaning”
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Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB), Unconscious Berlin, “The Autistic Subject” (Author), and “Lacan Today Conference” (Presenter, Ghent University, 20-21 Sep 2024)
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02 February 2025
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Sergio Benvenuto
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“Lacan and Game Theory”
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European Journal of Psychoanalysis (Italian section), European Journal of Psychoanalysis (Sergio Benvenuto Essays and Interviews), Institute for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis, and “Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy” (Author)
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16 February 2025
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Samuel McCormick
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TBD
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Lectures on Lacan, San Francisco State University, and “The Chattering Mind” (Author)
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02 March 2025
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Russell Grigg
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“Jacques Lacan, First Writings: ‘Structure of the Paranoiac Psychoses’ (1931)”
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Lacan Circle of Australia, Ecole de la Cause freudienne, New Lacanian School (NLS/AMP), World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP), Deakin University (Professor Emeritus), “Lacan, Language, and Philosophy” (Author), Jacques Lacan, “First Writings” (Translator, forthcoming), and “Lacan Today Conference” (Presenter, Ghent University, 20-21 Sep 2024)
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16 March 2025
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Calum Neill
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“On Destitution”
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Lacan in Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University, “Jacques Lacan: The Basics” (Author), “Reading Lacan’s Écrits” (Co-editor, Vol. 1-4), and “Lacan Today Conference” (Presenter, Ghent University, 20-21 Sep 2024)
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30 March 2025
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Sanem Güvenç
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“On Segregation”
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Emily Carr University of Art + Design and “Lacan Today Conference” (Presenter, Ghent University, 20-21 Sep 2024)
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13 April 2025
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Ona Nierenberg
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“Hospital-ity: On 20 Years at Bellevue, the Oldest Public Hospital in the U.S.”
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association: “Psychoanalysis in the Institution” (Clinical Working Group), APPI—Association for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy in Ireland (Overseas Member), Lacan Toronto (Honorary Member)
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27 April 2025
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Dany Nobus
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“Pascal’s Wager and the Knowledge of Ignorance in the Endgame of Psychoanalysis”
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Brunel University, British Psychoanalytic Council, Freud Museum London, Psychoanalysis and History (Journal), “Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason” (Author), “The Law of Desire” (Author), and “Lacan Today Conference” (Presenter, Ghent University, 20-21 Sep 2024)
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11 May 2025
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Kareen Malone
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“Seminar 17: Capitalism & Clinic”
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, University of West Georgia (Professor Emerita), “The Subject of Lacan” (Co-editor), and “Lacan and Addiction” (Co-editor)
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25 May 2025
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Will Greenshields
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“Lacan’s Hypothesis on The Origin of Writing”
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Zhejiang University and “Writing the Structures of the Subject” (Author)
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08 June 2025
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Domenico Cosenza in conversation with Penny Georgiou
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“A Lacanian Reading of Anorexia: A Clinical Discussion”
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Cosenza: University of Pavia, Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi del Campo Freudiano (SLP), World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP), and Federazione Italiana Disturbi Alimentari (Italian Federation of Eating Disorders) and “A Lacanian Reading of Anorexia” (Author); Georgiou: New Lacanian School (NLS/AMP), School of the Freudian Letter (SFL), and Lacan Toronto
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22 June 2025
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Daniel José Gaztambide
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“Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique”
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The City University of New York—Queens College, The Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology (CUNY—Queens College), and “Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique” (Author)
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06 July 2025
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John Dall’Aglio
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“The philosophical and scientific bases of a Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis”
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Duquesne University and “A Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis” (Author, forthcoming)
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20 July 2025
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Angelo Villa
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“Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap”
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association: “On Clinical Work with Children” (Reading Group with Discussion of Clinical Cases), Espace analytique, Research Institute of Applied Psychoanalysis (Milan and Ancona), Lacanian Institute (Palermo), Rosine Lafort in collaboration with Robert Lefort “Naissance de l’Autre” (Italian Translator), and “Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap” (Author)
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