Introduction and Overview of The Desire of Psychoanalysis Gabriel Tupinambá

The introduction and overview to The Desire of Psychoanalysis Symposium held on May 7th and May 8th 2021. This symposium is centered around a new work of Lacanian theory: The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Theory by Gabriel Tupinambá. Recognizing how certain theoretical and institutional problems in Lacanian psychoanalysis are grounded in the historical conditions of Lacans own thinking can help us overcome these impasses; Gabriel Tupinambá also analyzes the socioeconomic practices that underlie the current institutional existence of the Lacanian community. Learn more: