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Badiou's Lacan And The Beckett-Event (2023)
Book Chapter

Alain Badiou, one of the most psychoanalytically informed philosophers writing today, has called Jacques Lacan his “master” yet he also deems him to be an “anti-philosopher”. This chapter will do two things with this tension. Firstly, it will explore... Read More about Badiou's Lacan And The Beckett-Event.

Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI (2023)
Book Chapter

Posthumanism, with its visions of disembodied technological transcendence, has tended to dismiss psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on bodily drives and unconscious fantasies, as part of the outmoded Humanist framework posthumanism criticises. This co... Read More about Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI.

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (2022)
Book Chapter

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

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

© 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.

Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the relative sidelining of psychoanalysis in critical approaches to Happiness Studies thus far. It argues that this stems from an American strand of psychoanalysis known as ego-psychology which forms an unacknowledged element in... Read More about Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis.

Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the University Discourse (2019)
Book Chapter

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.

Colour intensities: logics of race and resistance in Jamaica (2019)
Journal Article

This article evaluates the gains but also the losses of the set-theoretical ontology Badiou develops in Being and Event, in order to stress the importance of the shift to a concern with appearance and difference in Logics of Worlds. It is argued that... Read More about Colour intensities: logics of race and resistance in Jamaica.

Tactical authenticity in the production of mad narratives (2019)
Journal Article

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

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.

Dr Fanon on Colonial Narcissism and Anti-Colonial Melancholia (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides an outline of Fanon’s involvement in the most progressive strand of French psychiatry that became known as ‘psychothérapie institutionnelle’, as well as of his clinical response to the colonial context at the Bilda-Joinville hos... Read More about Dr Fanon on Colonial Narcissism and Anti-Colonial Melancholia.

Perversion Now! (2017)
Book

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of ‘perversion’, which has undergone numerous profound changes in recen... Read More about Perversion Now!.

Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines the different conceptualisations of 'discourse' in the work of Foucault and Lacan. If Foucault's understanding has been much more influential in academic approaches such as Discourse Analysis, the links between Lacan's notion of... Read More about Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual.

Lacan's Sade: the politics of happiness (2015)
Journal Article

This article assesses the contemporary relevance of Sade’s work and thought by returning to Jacques Lacan’s interpretation of it. It is argued that if the Sadean emphasis on sexual freedom has been co-opted by neoliberal capitalism, this is in part t... Read More about Lacan's Sade: the politics of happiness.

Badiou in China? Re-translations of French Maoism and inaesthetics (2014)
Journal Article

This article explores the origins of Alain Badiou’s philosophy of art in his engagements with Maoism in order to speculate about the potential impact of that philosophy on contemporary Chinese art and art criticism. Utilizing the broad concept of ‘tr... Read More about Badiou in China? Re-translations of French Maoism and inaesthetics.