CSD 18 PROGRAM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2026
09:00am – 09:45am
Registrations
09:45am – 10:00am
Opening Remarks
Cristina Gonzalez-Garroni – Chair CSD
10:00am – 11:00am
Lecture
Sexuality since Lacan
Moderator: Cristina Gonzalez
Christiane Alberti – President WAP / Member ECF
11:00am – 11:30am
Coffee Break
11:30am – 01:00pm
Misunderstanding in Transference
Moderator: Samya Seth – Discussant: Alicia Arenas
The Analytic Act in the Emergence of a Mother
Eliza Guedez (Pennsylvania)
Breathe
Michael Mc Andrew (Colorado)
01:00pm – 03:00pm
Lunch
03:00pm – 04:45pm
Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence
Moderator: Brian Kloppenberg
Discussant: Neil Gorman and Juan Felipe Arango
Robin – Taming Wild Bodies
Ann Bulkens (California)
Ness Creates Her Own Loves
Olivia Prinz (California)
Aiden’s Saga, or His Monologue
Leila Yabiku (Chicago)
04:45pm – 05:15pm
Coffee Break
05:15pm – 06:00pm
Lecture
Discord
Moderator: Liliana Kruzel
Tom Svolos – Lacanian Compass President
Member NLS/WAP
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2026
09:00am – 10:00am
Lecture
On the Destinies of Love and Misunderstanding in a Psychoanalytical Cure
Moderator: Karina Tenembaum
Neus Carbonell – Analyst of the School – Member WAP, NLS, ELP
10:00am – 10:45am
Cartel Table
Discussants: Maurien Caron and Nancy Gillespie
A Cartel Can Be a Crack in Knowledge
Levi Bryant (Dallas)
Sustaining the Question: A Cartel Reflection
Elisa Acosta (New Jersey)
Feminine Jouissance and the Social Link
Cole Moore (Brooklyn)
10:45am – 11:15am
Coffee Break
11:15am – 12:45pm
Love as a Singular Invention
Moderator: Juan Felipe Arango – Discussant: Azeen Khan
Either Swallowed or in Charge
Isolda Alvarez (Miami)
Peace & War
Renata Teixeira (Miami)
12:45pm – 02:30pm
Lunch
02:30pm – 04:00pm
Language and Its Effect on Sexuality
Moderator: Ma. Cristina Aguirre – Discussant: Christiane Alberti
The Girl of Fire
Romina Gamaldi (Tennessee)
Untitled
Sanem Guvenc (Canada)
04:00pm – 04:30pm
Coffee Break
04:30pm – 05:45pm
Round Table: The Sexual No Relation and the Misunderstanding
Moderator: Tom Svolos
What Do We Know About the Sexual No Relation?
Neus Carbonell
The Match Does Not Exist, but There Are Contingencies
Jorge Assef
05:45pm – 06:00pm
Closing Remarks
Tom Svolos and Cristina Gonzalez