{"id":1762,"date":"2023-11-01T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2023-11-01T17:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:57:16","slug":"which-discourse-theory-lacan-emergency-capitalism-paranoia-fabio-vighi-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"Falad\u00e9 on Race | Sinan Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Event date and location<\/span>: 28 September 2023, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"gm86d72f2\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 alignwide section-gm86d72f2 gutentor-module gutentor-container-cover\"><div class=\"grid-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AkvTDpIub2A?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>This Lacan in Scotland seminar &#8220;&#8216;A Lesson for the World: Solange Falad\u00e9&#8217;s Lacanian Theory of Race&#8221; took place on Zoom on Thursday 28 September 2023. Dr Sinan Richards considers Franco-African psychoanalyst Solange Falad\u00e9\u2019s Lacanian theory of multiracialism. The event is chaired by Director of Lacan in Scotland Professor Calum Neill and is followed by a discussion with the audience.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Video Sections:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AkvTDpIub2A&amp;t=0s\">0:00<\/a> &#8211; Intro <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AkvTDpIub2A&amp;t=93s\">01:33<\/a> &#8211; Presentation <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AkvTDpIub2A&amp;t=3017s\">50:17<\/a> &#8211; Discussion with Calum Neill <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AkvTDpIub2A&amp;t=3653s\">1:00:53<\/a> &#8211; Q&amp;A with the audience <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Description of the Seminar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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. 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 [Around the Thing], 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<p>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 differently. For Lacan and Falad\u00e9, the respecter sa fa\u00e7on de jouir, is crucial in any psychoanalytic understanding of racism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr Sinan Richards<\/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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date and location: 28 September 2023, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recordings","category-video"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}