‘The Clit is Just a Clit’: The Imaginary, Symbolic and Real in the Performance Work of Holly Hughes

English Literature student in the PhD program at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and is an active member of the Vancouver Lacan Salon, a collective of academics, analysts and writers committed to in-depth study of Jacques Lacan's work. His dissertation is on discourses of reconciliation in Canadian literature. He has published an article on the ideology of visual art and has another forthcoming on the effects of translation in conflict resolution. He is currently interested in how forgiveness can be articulated in Lacanian thought and how this inflects our understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition of reconciliation.