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).