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A word from the Scholarly Seminar Series Coordinator Sheila Cavanagh

I created the Scholarly Seminar Series to provide a forum for those working on scholarly, artistic, or literary works, relevant to Lacanian psychoanalysis, to present works in progress and/or completed works. Independent and personal studies geared to external conference presentations, publications, artistic, and/or literary events relating to Lacanian psychoanalysis are welcome. While clinical material can be presented in the Series, it provides a supportive audience for those pursuing more theoretical contributions to Lacanian psychoanalysis. The Series will be of interest to everyone in the School. But it may be particularly relevant to those pursuing a scholarly formation with interests in Lacanian psychoanalysis beyond the clinic. Lacanian psychoanalysis makes tremendous contributions to the clinic and to the theory and culture of psychoanalysis more broadly. The latter is what the Series intends to foreground.

The intention is to have three presentations per year. If you are interested in presenting your work, please send Sheila Cavanagh an email along with a title and short abstract.

Sheila Cavanagh

Scholarly Seminar Series Coordinator

Sheila L. Cavanagh is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, and a candidate analyst at the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis in California. She is author of three books, including Bracha L. Ettinger & Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and the m/Other (2026), and co-author of Skin, Culture & Psychoanalysis. She co-edits Australian Feminist Studies and is writing her fourth book tentatively titled The Jocasta Complex: a daughter’s psychoanalysis. Cavanagh is a GLBT Indie Book Award finalist, a recipient of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association Outstanding Scholarship Prize Honorable Mention, and recently awarded distinguished talent residency by the Australian government for outstanding academic achievement.

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