“Medical Harmony: Eryximachus”—Commentary on Session V
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2020)
“Medical Harmony: Eryximachus”—Commentary on Session V. In G. Basu Thakur, & J. Dickstein (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII (51-59). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32742-2_4
This commentary presents a close reading of the fifth session of Lacan’s eighth seminar, titled in the 2015 translation, ‘Medical Harmony: Eryximachus’. In this section of the...
Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'The Freudian Thing' to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'
Book
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (Eds.)
(2019). Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'The Freudian Thing' to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'. London and New York: Routledge
The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy a...
Masculinity in crisis: Myth, fantasy and the promise of the raw
Journal Article
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...
Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'
Book
Vanheule, S., Hook, D., & Neill, C. (Eds.)
(2018). Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'. London/New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429459221
The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy a...
Introduction to ‘Reading Lacan's Écrits’: La trahison de l'écriture
Book Chapter
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (2018)
Introduction to ‘Reading Lacan's Écrits’: La trahison de l'écriture. In S. Vanheule, D. Hook, & C. Neill (Eds.), Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’ (1-5). Routledge
Do electric sheep dream of androids? On the place of fantasy in the consideration of the nonhuman
Book
Neill, C. (2018)
Do electric sheep dream of androids? On the place of fantasy in the consideration of the nonhuman. In G. Basu Thakur, & J. M. Dickstein (Eds.), Lacan and the Nonhuman, 213-225. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63817-1_11
From Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. through to Rosi Braidotti’s non-human actors, in fiction and theory alike, the notion of the non-human often runs very close to the human against whi...
Not to Naught be Brought: Paul Celan and the Necessary Failure of the Ever Coming Word
Journal Article
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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Ethical dilemma: codes of practice, why they don't work and why we need them.
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2017, March)
Ethical dilemma: codes of practice, why they don't work and why we need them. Presented at Can I Really Do This?, London
The very term ‘ethics’ falters unhelpfully in its usage. On a common sense level, we all know what we mean when we hear or use the term but in practice it signifies both a mod...
Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis
Book Chapter
Neill, C., & Eyers, T. (in press)
Aggressiveness in psychoanalysis. In Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Overture' to ‘Variations on the Standard Treatment'. Routledge
No abstract available.
How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability
Presentation / Conference
Li Chung, K., Charles, K., Neill, C. & Willis, A. (2016, July)
How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability. Poster presented at 18th European Conference on Personality, Timișoara, Romania
The Dark Triad (DT) – Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy – is associated with grandiosity, insensitivity, and exploitation. Some people are found to be more sensiti...