Masculinity in crisis: Myth, fantasy and the promise of the raw
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Neill, C. (2020)
Masculinity in crisis: Myth, fantasy and the promise of the raw. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 25, 4-17. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-019-00135-7
In unravelling the question of sexual difference and the (non-)relation between the sexes, Jacques Lacan alludes to, draws on and restages Freud’s myth of the primal horde. Co...
Not to Naught be Brought: Paul Celan and the Necessary Failure of the Ever Coming Word
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Neill, C. (2017)
Not to Naught be Brought: Paul Celan and the Necessary Failure of the Ever Coming Word. Annual review of critical psychology : action research, 13,
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Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis
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Neill, C. (2013)
Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis. Theory and Psychology, 23(3), 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354312473520
This paper presents an entry-level approach to Lacanian Discourse Analysis. Along the way it considers crucial issues for textual analysis, arguing that Lacan’s insights provi...
Žižek, political philosophy and subjectivity
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Hook, D., & Neill, C. (2010)
Žižek, political philosophy and subjectivity. Subjectivity, 3(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2009.35
Who wants to be in rational love?
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Neill, C. (2009)
Who wants to be in rational love?. Annual review of critical psychology : action research, 7, 140-150
Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito
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Neill, C. (2008)
Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito. Subjectivity, 24(1), 325-339. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2008.21
This paper explores a Lacanian approach towards inter-subjectivity and a consideration of how such an approach might impact constructively on social psychology. Drawing largel...
Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy.
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Neill, C. (2006)
Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy. 880-01 Gramma : journal of theory and criticism = Gramma : periodiko theōrias kai kritikēs, 14, 61-70
In the sixth chapter of the Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Lacan refers to the taoist Choang-tsu's well known parable of the dream butterfly. Choang-tsu poses th...
The Locus of Judgement in Lacan's Ethics
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Neill, C. (2005)
The Locus of Judgement in Lacan's Ethics. Journal for Lacanian studies. 3, 85-100. ISSN 1477-3635
This article seeks to redress an often elided aspect of Lacan’s treatment of ethics; the importance of judgement to the possibility of ethical action. Where writers like Žižek...
An idiotic act: on the non-example Of Antigone.
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Neill, C. (2005)
An idiotic act: on the non-example Of Antigone. Janus head. 34, 1-28. ISSN 1524-2269