Freud Café Canada
Between Hours/Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Toronto Psychoanalytic Society in collaboration with Community Bridges, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society presents:
FREE public talks on psychoanalytic ideas by Canadian psychoanalysts with an open discussion about their impact on our lives today.
Proust and Psychoanalysis:
A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Memory and Space in Marcel Proust’s Novel
BETWEEN HOURS
Online Event
With María Verónica Laguna and Rajiv Kaushik
Saturday, February 21, 2026: 1:00 to 2:30 pm (ET) / 10:00 to 11:30 am (PT)
** A free online event via Zoom. Preregistration is required.
Please RSVP by email to info@torontopsychoanalysis.com. Registration closes one week prior to the event.
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time has for decades been the subject of interdisciplinary inquiry. The novel’s central themes – time, love, memory, and art – have drawn the attention of scholars from diverse fields. Within the narrative, spaces often function as containers of past memories, while concrete locations and vivid images serve as witnesses to his remembrance of things past. Through the exploration of three involuntary memories in the novel, we will examine through a psychoanalytic lens the role of space in relation to time.
Join us for a lively discussion!
María Verónica Laguna is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, educator, and clinical supervisor based in Uruguay. Her interdisciplinary work, informed by over a decade of clinical and social work experience in New York City, bridges continents and communities. María lectures internationally on social work, critical psychology, migration, and intersectionality. She is the founder of The Bicultural Collective, an initiative supporting bicultural individuals and clinicians, and she leads Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, a collaborative database curating events and resources at the intersection of clinical practice and activism.
Rajiv Kaushik is a senior candidate at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis and a full professor of philosophy. His work focuses on the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, on whom he has published four books. He is currently writing a book on reverie. He is also a General Editor of Chiasmi International and General Secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle.
With Vivienne Pasieka, PhD, psychoanalyst, moderating.
Previous Presentations from The Freud Café
September 20, 2025 – Bethune’s Concern: the Fascist in Us
March 1, 2025 – Psychoanalysis as Soul-Making
October 26, 2024 – The Revolt against Mourning: The Outlawing of Grief and the Road to Social Violence, Vengeance and War
May 31, 2024 – Are you Empathic?
January 20, 2024 – The Leader’s Hypnotic Influence and the Creation of Alternate Reality
November 18, 2023 – Life and Death in the Metaverse
May 13, 2023 – Shakespeare’s Prefiguring of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Reverie: The Dream within the Dream
September 8, 2022 – Propaganda and the Lies We Tell Ourselves
March 5, 2022 – A Freud Café Dialogue in an Age of Bewilderment
October 29, 2021 – The Freud Café Fright Night – “And Things That Go Bump in the Night…” (& why we love them)
April 7, 2021 – Why the Couch? Psychoanalysis: From Freud to the Digital Age
April 12, 2017 – Hold Me: In Mind & in Reality
March 27, 2017 – Love, Relationships and Gender in the Times of Social Media
January 30, 2017 – In the Beginning was the Name: The Language of the Unconscious
November 23, 2016 – Psychoanalysis and Mysticism: Friends or Foes?
September 12, 2016 – The Traumatic Loneliness of Children
June 1, 2016 – Why do we Need to Remember our Dreams?
May 2, 2016 – Coupling: A psychoanalytic point of view
March 21, 2016 – The Psychology of Sport / The Psychoanalysis of Hockey
September 28, 2015 – Of Human Bondage and Jokes
May 21, 2015 – Whose unconscious is it anyway? – A user’s guide, from Freud to more recent ideas about the unconscious
March 19, 2015 – Sibling Rivalry in Jane Austen’s Fiction, a psychoanalytic reading
January 29, 2015 – Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Or Why it May be Easier to Hate Your Neighbour
November 13, 2014 – On Guilt and Conscience: Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents — A Kleinian Re-View
September 23, 2014 – Oedipus, Aristotle and Freud
May 22, 2014 – Freud and Plato: Plato’s Anticipations of Freud’s Psychology of Dreams in the Republic
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