New Theoretical Directions in Psychoanalysis Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Patricia Gherovici

Our third panel features three of the foremost Lacanian thinkers working today, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Patricia Gherovici. This discussion is centered around a new text of Lacanian thought entitled The Desire of Psychoanalysis by Gabriel Tupinambá. A symposium was held on May 7th and May 8th 2021 to elaborate some of the main theoretical issues raised in the text. The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Theory by Gabriel Tupinambá recognizes 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. The text also analyzes the socioeconomic practices that underlie the current institutional existence of the Lacanian community. Learn more: