EVENTS
Events and Public Engagement
The Centre for Lacanian Analysis holds regular events including lectures, film screenings, annual conferences and workshops related to the praxis of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Those available to the public are regularly updated on our website and are available to attend at a discounted rate with a membership with the CLA.
2026 Conference of the CLA. Technologies: A Question for Psychoanalysis with Special Guest, Leonardo S. Rodriguez
Friday 27th – Sunday 29 March 2026
6pm Open – 2pm Close
Sudima, Kaikoura
In Person Event Only, All Welcome
email secretary@lacan.org.nz for more information
The development of artificial intelligence, and other technological devices is driving significant transformation within our libidinal and social spaces. Further, we are participant in utilising AI and other technologies to generate and mediate the foundations upon which the subject speaks. The 2026 Conference of the CLA asks about the interface between technologies and psychoanalysis today.
These papers are focused on the clinic, which consider some of the technologies used in psychoanalysis. The digital environment demands an interrogation of the technologies used in the praxis of psychoanalysis. These include technologies of the voice, the ear and the couch. We invite psychoanalytic explorations of the relation between technologies and the clinic. These technologies have the potential to radically alter the ways in which psychoanalysis is practiced. As well, the transmission of the praxis of psychoanalysis has both permeated and extended the possibilities for this transmission
JACQUES LACAN’S SEMINAR VI “DESIRE AND ITS INTERPRETATION”
The Centre for Lacanian Analysis proudly presents a 2-day clinical workshop with Dr Bruce Fink. Dr Fink is renowned for his ability to unravel complex psychoanalytic concepts with clarity and insight and is a vitally important thinker privileging the clinic of psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation. Dr Fink will explore the complexities of how clinicians can work with desire and its implications in psychoanalytic practise.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to engage with one of the foremost experts in psychoanalysis of the clinic. The clinical workshops are reserved for clinicians and clinicians in training. Places are limited and the clinical workshop is only available
for those attending in person. Reserve your place at this event today and be part of a professional development course which is assured to be an intellectually stimulating and clinically invaluable event with Bruce Fink!
$575 non CLA members
$375 for members
Registration and payment to be made by 15 November 2024
An encounter with Bruce Fink
The Centre for Lacanian Analysis is delighted to announce that Dr Bruce Fink will be in Aotearoa on November 29th 2024. Dr Fink is a renowned psychoanalyst, an influential translator of Jacques Lacan and author of numerous books on psychoanalysis.
The topic of the public lecture is ”On The Value of the Lacanian approach to psychoanalytic practice”. This lecture will
prove invaluable to seasoned clinicians, trainees, analysands and all who have an interest in psychoanalysis and a curiosity
about the mind. Registration is essential and your registration booking number will be taken at the door.
$125 non CLA members
$75 for members
Registration and payment to be made by 15 November 2024