There is no membership requirement nor fee to attend the regular meetings of Lacan Toronto. All are welcome.
If you wish to become a registered member of Lacan Toronto, please write to us telling us about yourself and your interests in Lacan. Send it in to our Treasurer, Joan Guenther, at joanguen@sympatico.ca Then you will be asked to pay the annual fee of $150 to Lacan Toronto at the next meeting you attend or send it in by Interac mail. This will give you the opportunity to receive any recordings made of meetings and teaching sessions as well as notices from other Lacanian organizations, the opportunity to teach Lacan with our support, the opportunity to communicate with other members of Lacan Toronto.
All registered members are listed on the Registered Members page in alphabetical order by their surname.
Tejpal Ajji
Ellyn Altman
Ramiro Armas-Austria
Natalka Celuch
Dan Collins
Jacob Engel
Barbara Freeman
Patricia Gaviria
Penny (Panayiota) Georgiou
Joan Guenther taught in elementary and secondary schools in downtown west Toronto for twenty years. Over a ten year period she served as local president and provincial treasurer of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association with a special interest in labour negotiation, teacher counseling and political activism. She wrote and published under the auspices of the Teacher Federation. She began reading Lacan while on a sabbatical at York University in 1994. Joan holds undergraduate and education degrees from St Francis Xavier and York Universities. She is currently writing and critiquing contemporary English language Canadian poetry and publishing with a concentration on various internet literary sites.
Judith Hamilton is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst, a co-founder of Lacan Toronto, and in private practice in downtown Toronto. She took her medical and specialist degrees at the University of Toronto and became a psychoanalyst through the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis in 1982. She is a member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society. She began her Lacanian studies in 2000, attending the Stockbridge Lacanian Clinical Forum, reading groups with colleagues and conferences in Toronto with Speaking of Lacan, and increasingly, international Lacan conferences in the U.S., Paris and London, England. She teaches both Freud studies and Lacan to psychoanalytic psychotherapy students of the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society. She shares with anyone interested her reading lists, teaching and student notes here on her website and also supervises psychotherapists. She had, herself, a Lacanian analysis, and is passionate about learning and spreading what the Lacanian orientation adds to the perspectives and tools of work with contemporary patients.
Carlos Rivas
Mark Samberg
Madeleine Scott
Shari Zimmerman