{"id":1710,"date":"2023-09-21T21:51:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2023-10-09T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:44:47","slug":"life-drive-and-the-feminine-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson for the World: Solange Falad\u00e9\u2019s Lacanian Theory of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An online seminar discussing Franco-African psychoanalyst Solange Falad\u00e9\u2019s Lacanian theory of multiracialism.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Solange Adelola Falad\u00e9 (1925-2004), a close friend and disciple of Jacques Lacan, was a French-Beninois doctor, anthropologist and psychoanalyst. The first woman Franco-African psychoanalyst in France, she founded her own psychoanalytical society, l\u2019\u00c9cole freudienne, in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of this talk is twofold, on the one hand, I introduce Falad\u00e9\u2019s life and works, and on the other, discuss her distinctly Lacanian theory of multiracialism. I focus on Falad\u00e9\u2019s activities with the Institut d\u2019Ethno-Psychopathologie Africaine and her theory of race and racism from the early 1990s to highlight the crossover between Falad\u00e9\u2019s orthodox Lacanianism and her radical anti-colonial scholarship. Beginning in May 1994, during a session of her seminar Autour de la Chose <\/em>[Around the Thing<\/em>], <\/em>Falad\u00e9 interrupted her orthodox Lacanian teachings to discuss the psychoanalytical and racial implications of negotiations between Nelson Mandela and Frederik De Klerk, which inaugurated the beginning of the end of apartheid in South Africa, creating with it a multiracial state and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I will show, in Falad\u00e9\u2019s theory, there is a demand for radical equality, and the lesson of respecting each other\u2019s ways of enjoying<\/em> differently. For Lacan and Falad\u00e9, the respecter sa fa\u00e7on de jouir<\/em>, is crucial in any psychoanalytic understanding of racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Sinan Richards<\/strong><\/strong> graduated with an MA in Comparative Literature from University College London before completing a D.Phil. at Wadham College, Oxford. He taught in Oxford, then for four years in Paris at the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure de Paris(ENS-PSL) before joining King\u2019s in 2021. In Paris, he was also a member of the Centre International d\u2019\u00c9tude de la Philosophie Fran\u00e7aise Contemporaine (CIEPFC) cluster of the R\u00e9publique des Savoirs (ENS\/CNRS\/Coll\u00e8ge de France) [USR 3608].Dr Richards is a specialist in twentieth-century European and Francophone philosophy and anti-colonial theory. His research has primarily centred on the intersection of critical theory, gender, and decoloniality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The seminar will take place on Zoom on Thursday 28 September 2023 at 8pm-9:30pm British Summer Time<\/strong> (BST).<\/strong>  Please be aware that Eventbrite (and Facebook) usually automatically converts the event time for the time zone from which you view the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is open to everyone and free with Eventbrite registration<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>The Zoom link will be available for registrants on the ‘Online Event Page’ (found when accessing your ticket on Eventbrite) on the day of the seminar.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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