This Lacan in Scotland seminar “En-Joui Your Symptom: On Non-Psychoanalysis and the Philo-Analytic Complex” took place 29 January 2026 online. Dr Jeremy R. Smith, independent researcher, discusses François Laruelle’s concepts of non-philosophy and non-psychoanalysis, and their implications and applications. The seminar is chaired by Professor Calum Neill, Director of Lacan in Scotland and ends in a Q&A discussion.

Video Sections:

0:00 – Intro
01:38 – Presentation
1:02:35 – Discussion with Calum
1:16:24 – Q&A with audience
1:35:18 – Outro

About the Event

Over the past decade and a half, the work of François Laruelle has garnered international recognition for his inventive theoretical practice called non-philosophy, becoming the subject of scholarship, interpretation, and advancement. In this talk by the translator of Theory of Strangers: Science of People, Democracy, and Non-Psychoanalysis, Jeremy R. Smith provides an introduction to non-philosophy for new readers and scholars of Lacan and Lacanian psychoanalysis to see Laruelle’s insights into what he calls non-psychoanalysis. This talk will give an overview of non-philosophy, the stakes of the translation, as well as the non-analytic implications it introduces with the conceptual vocabulary, theoretical apparatus, and potential practical applications present in the book.

About the Speaker

Jeremy R. Smith is an independent researcher with a doctorate from the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University. A co-founder and former co-editor of Oraxiom: A Journal of Non-Philosophy, his research is engaged in the non-political implications of François Laruelle’s work as it pertains to human experience and democratic invention. Jeremy is the translator of Laruelle’s 1995 text, Theory of Strangers: Science of People, Democracy, and Non-Psychoanalysis, published by Edinburgh University Press. He has also co-translated work by Anne-Françoise Schmid with Brynn McNab and Luka Stojanovic, and he is currently working on a translation of Gilbert Hottois’ science fiction novel, Species Technica. Please visit endemictheory.wordpress.com for translations and writings.