Events
Events, seminars, symposia — past and upcoming.
Upcoming
Marx and Lacan
A full-day meeting on Lacan's references to Marx — the invention of the symptom, surplus jouissance and the capitalist discourse.
Ongoing
Lacanian Psychoanalysis Seminars — 2026–2027
The second year of the Lacanian psychoanalysis seminars held at BonVivant. Starting from Lacan's return to Freud, it takes up fundamental concepts such as the symptom, desire, jouissance and the object a, and discusses clinical topics like psychoanalytic diagnosis, neurosis and psychosis through case studies.
The programme is intended for psychology and counselling undergraduates (3rd–4th year), psychologists, counsellors and clinical psychologists, as well as psychiatry and child-and-adolescent psychiatry residents and specialists. Places are limited to 15. The fee is 24.000 ₺, or 16.000 ₺ for students and residents.
To apply, write to psikologekinsen@gmail.com with a note introducing yourself and explaining your interest in psychoanalysis; once your place is confirmed, details about payment and other practicalities will be shared.
PAD Seminars — The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
The second module of the Psychoanalysis Research Association's 2026–2027 programme: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis. This year we turn towards Seminar XVII, which Lacan gave in the wake of the student movements of 1968 — the signifier and jouissance, the four discourses, the reworking of the Oedipus complex and the capitalist discourse.
Alongside the eight sessions, the Lacan Symposium, the Study Day in the spring term and joint events with international guest analysts are part of the programme. The modules are independent of one another; see the announcement page for the full programme, the speakers and the conditions of registration.
Archive
Is Every Understanding a Misunderstanding?
An online seminar hosted by the Clinical Psychology department of Işık University, taking up the relation between understanding and misunderstanding from a psychoanalytic perspective.
The seminar was open to the department's students and graduates.
Transference and Love: A Lacanian Psychoanalysis Camp
The concept of transference is detailed through the clinical structures and Lacan's seminars by way of the theory of discourses.
The first three days proceed within a theoretical and clinical frame; the final two days are devoted to deepening discussions around films and books shared in advance.
Thinking Society Through Psychoanalysis
Hosted by the Philosophy Department of Boğaziçi University and coordinated by Tarık Tekinkaya, this event sets out to think society through psychoanalysis — to analyse the master's discourse by way of the analyst's discourse. Alev Özkazanç speaks on “Feminism and Psychoanalysis,” Atakan Yorulmaz on “Sexuation and Psychoanalysis,” and Oğuzhan Nacak on “Politics and Psychoanalysis.”
We take up the psychoanalytic line running from Freud to Lacan in a broad frame — alongside post-structuralist thinkers and theorists of gender and queer studies — opening these theories to discussion through clinical and social practice. Although the programme speaks to those working and reading in mental health, participation is open to all.
The Misunderstanding Between the Sexes
The Psychoanalytic Research Association's 2026 study day took place on 10 May. The programme featured the guest analysts Anita and Luis Izcovich speaking on the misunderstanding between generations and on what takes hold of bodies.
As part of the Conversations on Children and Adolescents with Psychoanalysts series, we spoke with Sezai Halifeoğlu about online gambling addiction.
The video recording of this event — where we had the chance to take up addiction, chance, winning/losing and many other themes — can be found on the YouTube channel of Yapı Kredi Culture & Arts.