A History of the Other | Presentation (1 of 2) | Gabriel Tupinambá

This Lacan in Scotland seminar ’A History of the Other: Sex, Kinship and the Conditions of Psychoanalysis’ took place on Zoom on Thursday 29 September 2022. Why did psychoanalysis emerge when it did – and what is its debt to these historical conditions? In this presentation chaired by Dr Calum Neill (Director of Scotland), Gabriel Tupinambá (psychoanalyst) proposes a speculative hypothesis which includes psychoanalysis in the history of the transformations of the logic of affinity and kinship under the consolidation of capitalist modernity. The presentation is followed by a discussion with the audience, which is available as a separate video: VIDEO TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 03:09 - Presentation DESCRIPTION OF THE SEMINAR In a critical dialogue with Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Phillipe Descola and Christian Dunker, Gabriel Tupinambá suggests that one of