Outputs (6)

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (2022)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2022). Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. In The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies (1-19). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9_34-1

Black Skin, White Masks, by the experimental psychiatrist and anti-colonial militant, Franz Fanon, is regarded as a seminal text in the fields of postcolonial theory and critical race studies. Yet it has also been deeply influential on – and indeed c... Read More about Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon.

Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII (2022)
Book
Litten, R., & Wright, C. (Eds.). (2022). Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII. Lacanian Press

We now read Jacques Lacan’s seventeenth seminar from “the other side” of a fifty-year gap separating us from its initial delivery, at the Place du Panthéon, in the academic year 1969-1970. This is factually the case, yet viewing it this way is akin t... Read More about Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII.

A spoonful of sugar: Medication and the psychoanalytic body (2020)
Journal Article
Wright, C. (2020). A spoonful of sugar: Medication and the psychoanalytic body. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 25, 135–154. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-019-00146-4

© 2020, Springer Nature Limited. This article employs a Lacanian framework to re-visit the vexed relationship between psychoanalysis and medication, which, it is claimed, also pertains to debates about the status of the psychoanalytic body. Whilst ac... Read More about A spoonful of sugar: Medication and the psychoanalytic body.

Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the University Discourse (2019)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (in press). Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the University Discourse. In A. Vidal, K. Shingler, & A. Sharman (Eds.), Other ‘68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ‘68

This chapter tracks the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s evolving position on the French experi-ence of May 1968. Lacanian notions around structure and desire were clearly at play in the run up to the May events and initially Lacan was supportive of bot... Read More about Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the University Discourse.

Tactical authenticity in the production of mad narratives (2019)
Journal Article
WRIGHT, C., & CLARKE, S. (2019). Tactical authenticity in the production of mad narratives. Social Theory and Health, 17(2), 15. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-019-00092-2

First-person accounts of madness and of encountering psychiatric services provide important sociocultural and psychological knowledge about the subjectivity of distress. The importance of such accounts is often based upon a claim of the authenticity... Read More about Tactical authenticity in the production of mad narratives.

Lacan’s Cybernetic Theory of Causality: Repetition and the Unconscious in Duncan Jones’ Source Code (2018)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2018). Lacan’s Cybernetic Theory of Causality: Repetition and the Unconscious in Duncan Jones’ Source Code. In S. Matviyenko, & J. Roof (Eds.), Lacan and the Posthuman (67-88). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76327-9_5

This chapter explores the intersections between the fields of Lacanian psychoanalysis and theories of the posthuman. It argues that Lacan's early engagements with cybernetics and game theory prefigured many of the questions about artificial intellige... Read More about Lacan’s Cybernetic Theory of Causality: Repetition and the Unconscious in Duncan Jones’ Source Code.