Unhingedness — with Sanem Güvenç

Below the Radar

This week on Below the Radar we’re joined by Sanem Güvenç, a scholar, psychoanalyst, and university professor, as well as co-president of the Vancouver-based psychoanalytic society Lacan Salon. Together they discuss friendship, authoritarianism, teaching, and how Sanem reads the works of various philosophers, with a focus on how she got into Lacan. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/234-sanem-guvenc.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/234-sanem-guvenc.html Resources: Sanem Güvenç: https://www.sanemguvenc.com/ Lacan Salon: https://lacansalon.com/ ECUAD's Critical and Cultural Studies: https://www.ecuad.ca/academics/all-programs/undergraduate-programs/crcp Bio: Sanem Güvenç is an independent scholar based in Vancouver. Her current practice sits at the intersection of social-political theory and psychoanalysis, and works towards carving and mapping possible instances of echoes, dissonances, knottings and alliances in between those two broad fields. She traces these, on the one hand, in the humanities and social science classes she teaches at ECUAD's Critical and Cultural Studies, where she is positioned as a scholar in residence. On the other hand, these tropes are the founding questions of her book manuscript, tentatively titled, Topologies of the Void, where she employs speculative narration and experimental theorizing. Previously she journeyed through twentieth century its beginning and end through politics of eugenics and diseases in the first half of the twentieth century and neoliberal governmentalities at the tail end of it. At the moment, she is acting as the co-president of the Lacan Salon, the Vancouver-based psychoanalytic society that promotes and transmits analytical discourse. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Unhingedness — with Sanem Güvenç.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 13, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes234-sanem-guvenc.html.