Program

 

Day one: Friday 18/09/2026 on campus Dunant 2

Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent

08:00 Welcome08h00 - 09h00: Main entrance
08:30
09:00 Parallel sessions09h00 - 10h45
09:30
10:00
10:30
10:45 Coffee Break10h45 - 11h15: Above AUD 2
11:15 Parallel sessions11h15 - 13h00
11:30
12:00
12:30
13:00 Lunch Break13h00 - 14h00: Above AUD 2
13:30
14:00 Opening Address14h00 - 14h15: AUD 2
14:15 Keynote - Darian LeaderChair: Bart Rabaey
14h15 - 15h15: AUD 2
14:45
15:15 Coffee Break15h15 - 15h45: Above AUD 2
15:45 Keynote - Bracha L. EttingerChair: Evangelia Danadaki
15h45 - 16h45: AUD 2
16:15
16:45 Keynote - Jamieson WebsterChair: Calum Neill
16h45 - 17h45: AUD 2
17:15
17:45
19:00 Party @ Cocteau with DJ Jeans19h00 - 01h00: Cocteau
19:30
20:00
20:30

Day Two: Saturday 19/09/26 on campus Dunant 2

Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent

09:00 Stijn VanheuleChair: Amanda Diserholt
09h00 - 10h00: AUD 2
09:30
10:00 Coffee Break10h00 - 10h30: Above AUD 2
10:30 Parallel Sessions10h30 - 12h15
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:15 Lunch Break12h15 - 13h15: Above AUD 2
12:45
13:15 Parallel Sessions13h15 - 15h00
13:45
14:15
14:45
15:00 Coffee Break15h00 - 15h15: Above AUD 2
15:15 Isabel MillarChair: Melanie De Boever
15h15 - 16h15: AUD 2
15:45
16:15 Farewell Address16h15 - 17h00: AUD 2
16:45
17:00

Day One: Friday 18/09/26 - Parallel Sessions

Parallel sessions

09h00 - 10h45

CHAIR: Lotte Morel - AUD 1
Gyselinck Laurein
The Priestly “Yes”: Celibacy, Desire, and the Symbolic Order in Diocesan Catholic Priesthood
Aktas Deniz
The Lump: Extimacy, Supersessionism, and the Neighbour as Remainder
Neiva Luis
Flesh, voice and other excrements - Singing and the political theology of the Renaissance
CHAIR: Evi Verbeke - Classroom 1.1
Munar Ana Maria
Sexuation and “The Little Mermaid”: Traversing towards the Other Jouissance
Su Ozak Berçem
A Lacanian Bilateral Inquiry into Hamlet and Medea: Revenge, Identification and Phallus
Roelandts Dries
The Lacan-Milot Case
CHAIR: Reitske Meganck - Classroom 2.2
Baxter Claire
ANTIGONE AND THE LOGIC OF THE SIGNIFIER: HOW TO LOCATE THE SINGULARITY OF THE SUBJECT UNDER THE THEORETICAL WEIGHT OF THEORY
Jardini Jonatan Drumond
The logic of singularity in Jacques Lacan
Cutler Oliver
Not Giving Ground at the Event Horizon: Lacanian Ethics, the Beautiful, and Reproductive Coercion in Claire Denis' High Life (2018)
Christina Soto - Emilia Larraechea
Against the Example: The Poem and its Inscription/Interruption of Knowledge
CHAIR: Derek Hook - Classroom 3.1
Reynaert Maarten
The Question of Psychosis: Lacan’s Conceptual Groundwork in Seminar III
Cruz Cynthia
The Return of the Asylum: The French Revolution and the Emergence of the Psychotic
Subject
Casey Max
The Fullness that Desires: On Desire in Psychosis
Peoc'h Mickaël
Contemporary practices as attempts to inhabit the body: a clinical approach to the image in ordinary psychosis
CHAIR: Lotte Soffers - Classroom 3.2
Marshal John
The Immunological Algorithm: Lacanian Biology and the Architecture of the Drive
Montealegre Michel
ParanoIA
Ilayda Gözel
When the Dead Speak: Digital Mourning, AI Afterlife, and the Destitution of Symbolic Death
CHAIR: Bart Rabaey - Classroom 3.3
Pantea Mousavi - Online
War and the Real: Fantasy, Jouissance, and the Subject in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Akbulut Onur
LIVE TO DIE OR DIE TO LIVE: A LACANIAN READING ON MARTYR LETTERS
Alrustm Hane
Impossible Loss: When Faith Replaces Justice in Syria
CHAIR: Emma Brijs - Classroom 4.2
De Boever Melanie
We are the strong caregivers! Aren’t we? Experiences of students in clinical psychology during their internship within a multidisciplinary mental health team.
Acke Emma
Context as subject: a Lacanian approach to context-oriented work in psychiatric youth care
Brijs Emma
From Pinpointing to Circulating:
Art as Care, Movement and Encounter in Psychosis Care
Moonen Christoph
Inventing ‘Untimely Tactics’ Within Contemporary Institutions: A Pastoral Exploration
CHAIR: Amar El-Omari - Classroom 4.3
Canbolat Fazilet
The Collapse of the Scene: Lilith, Schreber and Contemporary Examples
Urvi Vora
The Other Scene on Another Stage
Chernaik Laura
Place and space in Heidegger and Lacan: Being, throwness-into-the-world, worldlessness, and landlessness
Melikova Anouchka
The concept of ‘double bookkeeping’ in psychoanalytic theory
CHAIR: Evangelia Danadaki - Classroom 2.3
Kunze Donald
Restoring Lacan’s Visual Thinking
De Gussem Shauni
Transference Beyond the Clinic: Symptom and Form in Film Pedagogy
Weber Eleanor Ivory
Structures don’t march in the streets and structural film: Copjec/Gidal/Lacan
CHAIR: Margaux Schoofs - Classroom 4.4
Kahn Jamie
Nothing:
Anastasopoulos Konstantinos
Lived experiences of adolescent anorectic patients : Emerging points of the unconscious
Bandinelli Arturo
Paying Attention to Nothing: Psychoanalysis and the question of attention
Parallel sessions

11h15 - 13h00

CHAIR: Jasper Feyaerts - AUD 1
Lotte Soffers
A case of post-partumpsychosis, phenomenological and Lacanian reflections
Bavo De Bleeckere
Writing as the Unsealing of a Mystery
Pavan Brar
The concept of ordinary psychosis
Andrea Flaminio
Lacan’s real order: From lived experience to a model for academic research.
CHAIR: Cindy Zeiher - Classroom 2.2
Cindy Zeiher ©
Écriture of Charlotte Moorman
Charlie Edmondson
Écriture of Charlotte Moorman”
Calum Neill
“The Real Unconscious of Jazz?”
Zhuoxuan Li
“Fugue, Bebop, A Gesture of Haste”
CHAIR: Derek Hook - Classroom 3.1
Derek Hook
Case Formulation as Montage
Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz
The Brutality of Kindness, About Jean Clavreul
Tate Hudson
Locating the placeless: Clinical listening in Lacanian psychotherapy
CHAIR: Stijn Vanheule - Classroom 3.2
Teeva Tamali
Uncaptured Captivations: Negativity in Poetry and Photography as a Counterforce to Discursive Inertia
Dragan Alexander Wilms
Resistant Causality: Lacan’s Reinterpretation of Kantian Subjectivity
Rafael Holmberg
Has Capitalism become Lacanian? Symbolic Tensions from Schelling to Land
CHAIR: Kristian Olesen Toft - Classroom 3.3
Kristian Olesen Toft
The Myth of Theory in Lacan’s Seminar IV
Cathrine Bjørnholt Michaelsen
The Logic of Disavowal – From Psychic Defence to Libidinal Economy
Thomas Feltheim
Which Mother, Which Object? The Maternal Function in Lacan’s Seminar IV and in Object Relations Theory
Sandra Dornonville la Cour
Naming the Unnameable – Metaphor and the Real in Lacan’s Seminar IV
CHAIR: Misha Kavka - Classroom 4.2
Maaike van der Horst
The Sex Robot Supposed to Know?
Nolen Gertz
RF Sensing, Panoptic Anxiety, and the Desire of the Gaze
Ciano Aydin
Existential Outsourcing in the Age of AI
CHAIR: Srdjan Djurdjevic - Classroom 4.3
Terrie Nicolas
Inversion: the negative road to Freud’s philosophy of science
Marysse Ferdy
Lacan heading for chaos theory
Greven Elsbeth
A (future) dictionary of Lacanian psychoanalysis: in-between savoir and connaissance
CHAIR: Munar Ana Maria - Classroom 2.3
Kevin Murphy
Observations on Shame from a Clinic of Perversion
Shakiba Shakerhosseini
The Body as a Site of Horror: War, Drives, and the Limits of Psychoanalysis.
Jochem Willemsen
The use of scansion as a psychoanalytic technique in relation to the logic of the case
CHAIR: Jamieson Webster - AUD 2
Matt Johnson
Attention Deficits: Accounting for Loss, Lack, and Debt in Psychoanalysis
Loryn Hatch
Surrendering Nothing: Anorexia and the Clinic
Marcus Coelen
The Axcess of the Object

Day Two: Saturday 19/09/26 - Parallel Sessions

Parallel sessions

10h30 - 12h15

CHAIR: Matthew Johnson - AUD 2
Tracy Simon
The Impossiblity of the Institution: Moustafa Safoaun and the question of the group.
Beatrice Patsalides Hofmann
In the wake of Siegfried Bernfeld and Jacques Lacan: Preserving a space for the real in the foundation of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis
Jeanne Wolff Bernstein
Can Psychoanalysis survive its own institutionalization? A Comparison of IPA and Lacanian solutions.
CHAIR: Derek Hook - Classroom 1.2
Lotte Morel
Whiteness and the Other in Question: Fanon between Sartre, Levinas, and Lacan
Sadje Hadje
The Persistent Phantom: A Lacanian Critique of Whiteness in Progressive Theology
Amar El-Omari
From “We” to “I”: Religiosity, Muslimness, and Subjectivity in the Narratives of Syria Travellers
Barnard-Naude Jaco
Dissolution of the Racist Superego
CHAIR: Marija Cetinic - Classroom 1.3
Diego Semerene
Usages of Transness: Psychoanalysis with/out Transphobia
Misha Kavka
The Trans Body in Popular Culture: Lessons from and to Psychoanalysis
Antonios Poulios
Bodies in Transition: Encountering Trans Experience and Decolonising Psychoanalytic Thought
CHAIR: Kristian Olesen Toft - Classroom 2.2
Josten Dries
From God to Man. Thinking the Anthropological Turn with Lacan.
Costa do Valle Luiz Artur
The Decline of Responsibility: Crime and Transgression in Jacques Lacan’s Early Psychoanalytic Anthropology
Ha Wayne
Unlocking the potential of Lacanian Discourse Analysis
Mäki Aino-Marjatta
Constructing History from What Does Not Exist: Psychoanalytic Experience Against Historiography
CHAIR: Margueritte Gleason - Classroom 3.2
Margot de Sloover
“Holding Without Grasping: Negative Empathy in Recovery-Oriented Psychosis Care at the Limits of Encounter”
Michael Ryzner-Basiewicz
Note on Empathy and its Negative
Edwin Dizdaric
Making sense of the (divided) “self”: a matter of negative empathy
CHAIR: Eve Watson - Classroom 3.3
Brenner Leon
Code Formation in Autistic Transference
Schokker Johan
Louis Wolfson: lalangue turned against lalangue
Lars Klute
The Formal Pleasures of the Cut: The Unary Trait from Bone to Skin
CHAIR: Nicolas Terrie - Classroom 4.2
Zhou Han
A Lacanian Discourse Analysis of Posttraumatic Growth
Wolter Christopher
Foreclosure is the Trauma: Verwerfung, Event, and Subjective Becoming
Lord Catherine
Keep the Wound Open: Lacan’s Jouissance Meets Avgi Saketopoulou’s “Exigent Sadist” (2026).
Yilmaz Eylül
The Limits of Après-Coup: Rethinking Trauma in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
CHAIR: Shakiba Shaker Hosseini - Classroom 4.3
Linsker Eri
Sinthomatic Castration and Dependent Deformation
Rana Matthew
Notes Towards Sinthomatic Reading: Sexual Division and the Problem of Repair
Ludmila Samuel
against depathologisation
Kanül Gülensu
SINTHOM OR JOUISSANCE ? : THE ONTOLOGY OF CONSUMING TRUE CRIME CONTENT
CHAIR: Jochem Willemsen - Classroom 2.3
Wilms Dragan
Resistant Causality: Lacan’s Reinterpretation of Kantian Subjectivity
Lovett Matthew
“Sex and Nomination between Lacan, Deleuze, and Leclaire”
Huang Po-yu
Is it possible to reconcile the late Lacan and Anti-Oedipus by means of the concept of the Real?
Algur Yusa
Understanding The Subject Through TTRPGs
CHAIR: Weber Eleanor Ivory - Classroom 4.4
Djurdjevic Srdjan
Queering the Not-All: Hocquenghem, Lacan, and the Politics of Jouissance Beyond Identity
Fontanelli Sara
Is Jacques Lacan a Queer Theorist? Undoing and “Redoing” Gender through Psychoanalysis
Van de ven Jacinta
Queer Rigidity and the Transference of Theory: A Lacanian Reading of Brilmyer
Shah Ritika
Pleasure Materialised: Malabou contra Lacan
Parallel sessions

13h15 - 15h00

CHAIR: Fazilet Canbolat - AUD 2
Verbeke Evi
Discontent in Contemporary Politics & Clinics: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Vega Luis
Prolegomena to Any Future Foundation of the Law
Shahbazi Nazanin
This-Order: L’Étourdit & Structural Violence
Uçar Özsoy Selin
The Violence of the “Man without Gravitiy”: Adolescent Perpation in the Postmodern Era
CHAIR: Zhuoxuan Li - Classroom 1.2
Danadaki Evangelia
Feminine Desire in Contemporary Art: Reading Ettinger (with/out Lacan) Today
Jones Robert
Wit(h)nessing the Shimmer: Matrixial Borderspace, Trans-Subjective Trauma and Phallic Subjectivity in Annihilation
Gkivisi Elena
Matrixiality and the Autobiographical Self
Stevenson Benjamin
In Violet Nature: Daphne Through the Looking Glass
CHAIR: Catherine Lord - Classroom 1.3
Escamilla Nathan Martin
Return to Freud against InCels’ psychiatrization - Masculinist radicalisation through psychoanalysis
Gûndogan Basak
Online Searches for Lost Enjoyment: The Family Ideal in Incel Discourse
Duygu Sökmen
A Psychoanalytical Study of Male NEET Youth: Subjectivity of Withdrawal
Skorjanc Tjasa
The Material Mirror in the Digital Age: Lacan, Objet a, and Technic Aisthesis
CHAIR: Calum Neill - Classroom 2.2
Amanda Diserholt
Virtual Couch
Tas Berke
Lacanian Clinic in the Contemporary Capitalism: The Position of the Analyst in the face of Commodification of Session
Da Silva Sven
Left Melancholy, fetishistic disavowal, zombie programs, and the need to return to Lacan to repeat an emancipatory wager in Brazil
CHAIR: Johan Schokker - Classroom 3.2
Nagihan Bekçi Gkçeoglu
Dissociative Identity Disorder in a Psychoanalytic Perspective: A Case Study
Grisar Philippe
The Case of El’s contract: A Justine in Analysis.
Saraç Didem
Acting Out in Clinical and Supervision Processes: A Case Study from the Perspectives of the Analysand and the Analyst
CHAIR: Pavan Brar - Classroom 3.3
Towers Ruby
An uninhabitable home: on the question of animal suicide in Lacan’s work
Shreeve Greg
‘Tell the truth! – eliciting new masters in the face of climate breakdown’
Beattie Miles
Ur-transfer
CHAIR: Maarten Reynaert - Classroom 4.2
Jochem Willemsen / Audrey
The practice of clinical presentations in psychiatry: ethical, didactical and therapeutic aspects
Kartal Fatos
Cut, Bending, and Re-positioning: On the Topological Functioning of Lacanian Supervision
Manka Meriç
Is It Me or Is It the Disorder? The Question of Diagnosis from a Psychoanalytic Point of View
CHAIR: Bavo De Bleeckere - Classroom 4.3
Omidghaemi Sadegh
Amrad , the unconscious side of Iranian sexuality
Maureen Winter
The ‘Pre-Signifying’ Unary Trait: the Apologue of the Hunter and the Latency of Writing
Junça De Morais Ava
Nostalgia as a Mode of Jouissance: A Lacanian Displacement through Saudade
CHAIR: Melanie De Boever - Classroom 2.3
Barrena Alicia
Raping the Unconscious
çelik Deniz
To Desire or Not to Desire: A Qualitative Study of Sexual (Dys)function
Kammholz Marco
Sex-negative Sex Education? Considerations for a Lacanian-oriented view on Sex Education
CHAIR: Max Casey - Classroom 4.4
Bayram Elmas Ece
A VOICE OF LOSS: MUSIC, OBJECT A, AND JOUISSANCE IN MOURNING
Hartmann Nadine
Is there such a thing as a “Discourse of the Melancholic”?
Rick Bellaar
Wittgenstein and Lacan: connections