Friday, April 18, 2025
Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)
4:00pm
Light refreshments will be provided

This talk is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory, and the California Forum of the Lacanian Field.

About the Talk

When the subject’s encounter with something impossible to bear is added to the social malaise, there’s often the emergency of a demand, pushing the subject to find a partner who could be the convenient interlocutor. Among all possible responses to this demand, there’s one that radically differs from the others: a psychoanalysis.

This lecture will discuss the psychoanalytic promise, its actual results, and whether its offer meets the subjective demands of our time. And, by clarifying the aims of psychoanalysis according to Jacques Lacan’s approach, the ongoing relevance of psychoanalysis will be highlighted.

About the Speaker

Luis Izcovich is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He currently teaches at the College of the Psychoanalytic Clinic of Paris and practices psychoanalysis in Paris. He is a founding member of the International Forums of the Lacanian Field and its School of psychoanalysis, the SPFLF. Additionally, Izcovich is the author of several influential texts, including The Marks of a Psychoanalysis (2015).

Parking for Campus Visitors

The closest parking structure to Kaplan Hall is Structure 2, followed by Structure 5 and Structure 4. Parking rates vary by structure, so please refer to the rates here. 

How to pay for parking:
Self-service pay stations are located in all visitor parking areas. Visitors must pay for parking BEFORE they leave their vehicles. Structure 2 has pay stations for visitors on the first and second floors. These floors are the only floors with visitor parking; there are also signs indicating which parking stalls are for visitors. Visitor parking permits are not valid in parking stalls outside of the visitor parking section of the structure and stalls posted for Blue and X permits or otherwise reserved. 

1. All self-service pay stations use pay-by-plate technology.
2. Once parked, go to the nearest parking pay station
3. Enter your license plate number. If you do not have a license plate number, please enter the last 6 (six) digits of your Vehicle ID Number (VIN). Your VIN can be found on the driver’s side door or the lower driver’s side of the windshield.
4. Choose the amount of time that you would like to spend on campus.
5. Pay using the exact cash amount or with a credit card. For those using their VIN, please place your receipt on your dashboard, otherwise nothing else is required. Pay stations do not provide change. There are no refunds for pay station purchases.

Additional visitor parking information can be found on the UCLA Transportation website.