A History of the Other, Presentation (1 of 2), Gabriel Tupinambá

This Lacan in Scotland seminar A History of the Other: Sex, Kinship and the Conditions of Psychoanalysis took place on Zoom on Thursday 29 September 2022. Why did psychoanalysis emerge when it did and what is its debt to these historical conditions In this presentation chaired by Dr Calum Neill (Director of Scotland), Gabriel Tupinambá (psychoanalyst) proposes a speculative hypothesis which includes psychoanalysis in the history of the transformations of the logic of affinity and kinship under the consolidation of capitalist modernity. The presentation is followed by a discussion with the audience, which is available as a separate video: VIDEO TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 03:09 Presentation DESCRIPTION OF THE SEMINAR In a critical dialogue with Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Phillipe Descola and Christian Dunker, Gabriel Tupinambá suggests that one of