Calum Neill
Calum Neill

Dr Calum Neill

Professor

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  C.Neill@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Calum Neill is a leading figure in the world of Lacanian theory, with particular expertise in ethics, discourse and subjectivity. He is passionate about opening Lacan's thinking to new audiences and, with this in mind, has written the first true entry level book on Lacan, Jacques Lacan the Basics (Routledge, 2023) and co-edited the four volume Reading Jacques Lacan's Ecrits series. Jacques Lacan the Basics will shortly appear in Korean, Greek, Spanish and Farsi translations.

Calum's previous books are Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity and Ethics & Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice.

Calum is also the editor of The Palgrave Lacan Series and the founder and director of the Gradiva Prize shortlisted Lacan In Scotland, a research group which hosts monthly public seminars.

Calum is the Head of the Doctoral College at Edinburgh Napier University. As well as supporting RPG students from across the University, he supervises PhDs in psychoanalytic and related theory.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Lacan's Ecrits Conference 2018
  • Discourse, Poetry and Possibility

 

Editorial Activity

  • The Palgrave Lacan Series
  • Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología (2015)
  • Psychoanalytische Perspectieven
  • The Journal of European Psychoanalysis
  • Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis
  • Millennium: Journal of International Studies
  • Žižek and Political Subjectivity, a special issue of Subjectivity, Vol 3.1
  • Žižek and Lacan, a special issue of the International Journal of Žižek Studies, Vol.2 No.2
  • Intersubjectivity and the (Im)possibility of Connection, a special issue of Subjectivity no.24
  • The International Journal of Žižek Studies
  • The Annual Review of Critical Psychology

 

External Examining/Validations

  • PhD examination
  • PhD examination
  • External PhD Examiner
  • External Examiner at Brunel University

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow of Advance HE

 

Invited Speaker

  • Psychoanalysis in the 21st century
  • The Only Good Father
  • EthicalEthical Dilemma: Codes of Practice, why they don't work and why we need them

 

Media Activity

  • New Books in Psychoanalysis Podcast Interview

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Autism in the Contemporary Lacanian Clinic
  • Social Superego and Liberation
  • Racialization and the Sexuated Subject
  • Which Discourse Theory? Lacan, Emergency Capitalism & Paranoia
  • Lacanian Remains: Excavating Function and Field
  • Life Drive and the Feminine
  • Freud's Alibi and Lacan's New Triumph Religion
  • Francis Bacon: Attacking the Self-Portrait
  • SEX, AI and the Enigma of Reproduction
  • Fatigue as Resistance to the Ideologies of Late Capitalism
  • Brazil: Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of Dictatorship
  • Anticipation and Medicine – Is Screening Necessarily a Good Thing?
  • The Dialectic of Populist Desire: No Deal/Halloween Special
  • Desire in the Era of Neoliberalism
  • A Lacanian Approach to Dreams and the Unconscious
  • Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context – A Book Launch
  • Crisis? What Crisis? Fantasies of Masculinity in Contemporary Cinema

 

Reviewing

  • Rowman & Littlefield
  • Frontiers in Psychoanalysis
  • Language and Psychoanalysis
  • Theory and Event
  • Millennium: Journal of International Studies
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • Subjectivity
  • The Journal of Asian and African Studies
  • The Journal of Peace Psychology
  • Routledge
  • Theory and Psychology
  • Comparative Literature Studies
  • Organization
  • Angelaki: the Journal of Theoretical Humanities
  • Psychology and Society
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Sage
  • Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society

 

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The Ethics of Inisherin: Seminar on Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2023, May)
The Ethics of Inisherin: Seminar on Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Presented at Irish Council for Psychotherapy seminar, Dublin
In this talk, Calum Neill will explore Lacan’s four propositions on ethics from his Seminar on the Ethics of Psychoanalysis and seek to illustrate his arguments through Martin...

Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C., & Fimiani, B. (2023, February)
Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment. Presented at Online event at The Freud Museum, London [online]
The Freud Museum welcomes psychoanalyst Bret Fimiani, who will be in discussion with the Palgrave Lacan series editor, Calum Neill, for his latest publication Psychosis and Ex...

‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2023, January)
‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary. Presented at International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Berlin
The Lecture will explore Lacan’s reformulation of two of Freud’s key myths- that of Oedipus and that of the primal horde- and will show how Lacan fruitfully offers us a radica...

Stuck in a Revolving Door

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2023, January)
Stuck in a Revolving Door. Presented at Invited Workshop, Ruhr Universitat, Bochum
Between his 16th and 19th seminars, Lacan introduced and played with the notion of what has come to be known as the four discourses. This quasi-algebraic schema can be unders...

Putting Lacan's Four Discourses to Work

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2022, October)
Putting Lacan's Four Discourses to Work. Presented at Lacan: Clinic & Culture, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
While Lacan’s teaching is directed much of the time toward a clinical application and the training of analysts, his writings and seminars are also replete with references to c...

Virtual Enjoyment - Close Reading

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2022, July)
Virtual Enjoyment - Close Reading. Presented at Virtual Enjoyment, Amsterdam
This session will provide an opportunity to explore two chapters from Lacan’s Seminar XVII. The primary aim of the session is to engage collectively in a slow reading of the s...

Virtual Enjoyment - Introduction

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2022, July)
Virtual Enjoyment - Introduction. Presented at Virtual Enjoyment, Amsterdam
This introductory session will provide an overview and context for the sessions ahead. It will provide a gloss of the two seminars, Seminar XVI From an Other to the other, and...

Introduction to ‘Reading Écrits': La trahison de l'écriture

Book Chapter
Neill, C., Hook, D., & Vanheule, S. (2022)
Introduction to ‘Reading Écrits': La trahison de l'écriture. In D. Hook, C. Neill, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘Logical Time’ to ‘Response to Jean Hyppolite’ (1-5). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003264231-101

Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘Logical Time’ to ‘Response to Jean Hyppolite’

Book
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (Eds.)
(2022). Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘Logical Time’ to ‘Response to Jean Hyppolite’. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003264231

Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049

Book
Neill, C. (Ed.)
(2021). Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56754-5

Current Post Grad projects

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Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Director of Studies for PhD candidate at Universidad Nacional de Rosario